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Walt Whitman wrote The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier during the lead up to the Mexican-American Wa r, while he was editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He frequently voiced his opinions of Mexico, especially regarding the wars between the United States and Mexican territories. When talking about how Mexico will be affected by the war, Whitman says "Mexico will be a severed and cut up nation. She deserves this, -- or rather her government deserves it, because Mexican rule has been more a libel on liberty than liberty itself". He was a believer of manifest destiny, and wanted the United States to expand as far as it could. Therefore, he was supportive of wars fought between anyone who wanted to get in the way of that. As Shivley states, "Whitman supported the Wilmot Proviso that would exclude slavery from conquered territories and called for an end to the war. Those like Whitman who could not support the extension of slavery founded the Free Soil Party".

The Half-Breed; was one of Whitman's earlier works, and his second-longest, just behind ''Franklin Evans. Franklin Evans also includes a chapter about a Native American, which was turned into its own short story, The Death of Wind-Foot''. BOOK ON GOOGLE HAS THE WORDS FOR THE THING