| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.1

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to the WHQ online. About 203 words from this article are provided below; about 369 words remain.

If you are a individual subscriber to the Western Historical Quarterly, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a subscriber to the Western Historical Quarterly, you can:: • subscribe here.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Western Historical Quarterly (104.3-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Western Historical Quarterly.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Mistress of Manifest Destiny: A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807–1878. By Linda S. Hudson. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2001. viii + 306 pp. Illustrations, maps. $29.95.)

If the author is correct in her research, she has made a major contribution to western history with the publication of her very first book. Hudson's conclusions about Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, a political writer of mid-nineteenth-century America, were that this woman apparently wrote the "Annexation" article in the July-August, 1845, United States Magazine and Democratic Review that scholars previously have attributed to John L. O'Sullivan. In that article, the term "Manifest Destiny" was used in print for the very first time. 1

Perhaps some will claim that Hudson takes too great a leap of judgment to credit an anonymously written historic article to a little-known woman writer and to denounce O'Sullivan. Hudson's methodology involved a computer program to monitor the similarities in writing style of the article in question with O'Sullivan's known work and some of Cazneau's signed essays. The computer indicated overwhelmingly for Cazneau. Actually, the lady writer was not Mrs. Cazneau yet, nor did she write as Jane Storm. Her best-known byline was Cora Montgomery. . . .

There are about 369 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.