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Article: Manifest Destiny: Mistress of Manifest Destiny; A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807-1878
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- The Texas Observer
- Article date:
- August 8, 2001
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Manifest Destiny: Mistress of Manifest Destiny; A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807-1878
Texas State Historical Association
306 pages, $29.95.
It's hard to argue with Linda S. Hudson's claim in Mistress of Manifest Destiny: A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807-1878 that Cazneau was "one of the more intelligent and influential women of her generation." She was married twice, courted by many, and rumored to be 76-year-old Aaron Burr's mistress while in her twenties. She speculated in land in Texas and the Caribbean, dabbled in trade, worked as a journalist and war correspondent for publications like United States Magazine and Democratic Review and the New York Weekly ...