Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-doc umented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose ex ploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April...
...Virgin Land" traces the impact of the West on the consciousness of Americans by analyzing its literature and social thought from the beginning until 1892 when the frontier was officially pronounced closed. Henry Nash Smith starts out by describing the early lack of interest in penetrating the continental interior. The majority of the British, intensely preoccupied with the continued development of their maritime commercial empire, opposed westward expansion. Yet a small group led by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson wrote prophetically of the extraordinary agrarian possibilities of the interior as well as its importance as an overland route...
Perhaps the most important chapter in this book contains Smith's evaluation of Frederick Jackson Turner's hypothesis that the frontier, the point where civilization meets savagery, is the vital force in American history. Smith declares that the argarian emphasis of the theory, "has tended to divert attention from the problems created by industrialization." He attacks the agrarian tradition of Turner because it has focussed all attention on the agricultural interior of the continent and prevented recognition of the vital relationship of America to the world community. These assertions are carefully reasoned and supported by prodigious research. Although they...
This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robbert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-documented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose exploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April...
...mountain man, unlike the prospector, cattleman, or frontier settler, left no successor . . . But in his few allotted years the trapper set his impress forever upon the map of North America and the fate of the United States." On his first hand retracing of the cold trails of long-dead trappers, Author Cleland packs along...