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They also sparked mass European-American settlement of the new territories, extending the nation&#8217;s push to displace and, in many cases, destroy Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n<p>These expeditions were &#8220;a mixture of public and private, and scientific and not; they were a grab bag of intentions and motivation,&#8221; says Wrigley Institute faculty affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/william-deverell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Deverell<\/a>, a USC history professor and Dornsife College divisional dean who studies the environmental history of the American West.<\/p>\n<p>Through the new maps and the reports and images that accompanied them, many individuals living in the eastern half of the country became aware for the first time of the monumental and awe-inspiring landscape out West. The ecosystems, landforms, and wildlife were completely unfamiliar to most easterners, and were unlike anything found almost anywhere else on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>In a story on the History Channel website, Deverell outlines the major mapping expeditions of this period and explains the impact they had on people&#8217;s conceptions of the environment that became the American West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/articles\/5-mapping-expeditions-american-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story on the History Channel website &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":4435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[84,16,83],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-environmental-history","tag-faculty","tag-history"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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