“Life is a great adventure—accept it in such a spirit.” – Theodore Roosevelt
A century ago, America was well on her way to irreparably destroying the very earth on which she sat. In a matter of decades, the young nation had carved a triumphant swathe across the virgin continent, leaving a path of death and destruction in its wake. Displacement and mass-extinction—the results of “progress.” Whatever the sins of our past, there is no denying that without this period of wild expansionism—“manifest destiny” we call it, America may never have grown into the great nation she is today.