Download or read book The Western Experiment written by Elizabeth R. McKinsey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes transcendalism as it moves West and settles in the Ohio River Valley where it did not capture the sensibilities of frontier people. Its intellectualism and its ties to nature were at some distance from these hardworking pioneers and it failed to transform them in the nineteenth century.