Tracing the American Identity - The evolution thereof.

The American Identity could be considered and oxymoron in and of itself. From
the very inception of explorers to the "New Land" to American culture today, Americans
still don't have a firm grasp of whom they really are. In any event, I will attempt to trace
the evolution of the American identity using time honored literary figures such as
Columbus, de Vaca, Smith, Rowlandson, and others.
Sent on a conquest to find new trade routes, Christopher Columbus, pummeled
into a land, America that signaled the birthing of a new culture. In Columbus' Journal he
describes the Native American…