The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10 1885 – July 18 1950) was a U. He earned a bachelor of arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1907 and a doctorate from Columbia University in 1911 and continued to teach there until 1930.

S. critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10 1885 – July 18 1950) was a U.