The Frontier and American Character
The frontier has long held a special place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Since shortly after the first colonies were founded on the Atlantic coast, the fron...
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For more than four hundred years, the frontier regions of America were an ever-shifting area that spanned an entire continent. From the tidewater regions of New England to the California coast, the Am...
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Daniel Boone peered anxiously through the green-smelling foliage at five Shawnee braves cooking meat over an open fire. His fringed, buckskin shirt was black with sweat and his expression was more int...
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The timeline described in Frederick Jackson Turner's essay points to 1890 as the end of the American frontier that had been a part of the this country's heritage and culture since the very fi...
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The Frontier and American Character
American Frontier
