Gregory F. Michno > Quotes

“Manifest Destiny, depicted in paintings as an angelic woman in a diaphanous white gown floating serenely, yet watchfully, over the immigrants heading west, was quite a bitch in reality. Anyone not under her wing and not part of the American vision was going to be trampled. Those outside the fold were manifestly destined to be nailed.”
― Gregory F. Michno, Depredation and Deceit: The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico