Add to ORKGIn Kentucky, the first frontier beyond the Appalachians, Arthur K. Moore finds a unique ground for examining some of the basic elements in America’s cultural development. There the frontier mind acquired definite form, and there emerged the forces that largely shaped the American West. Moore reveals the Kentucky frontiersman as a colorful, exciting figure about whom there gathered a golden haze of myth from which historians have never been able to free him. He finds that “noble savage” did not possess those high qualities of mind and spirit which both his contemporaries and present-day writers have attributed him. He especially questions the wide and uncritical acceptance of Frederick Jackson Turner’s theory that the illiterate emigrants ha...
Using an interdisciplinary perspective, I have drawn materials from writers who took a philosophical...
While common sense tells us that the 19th-century U.S. was obsessed with individual rights and indiv...
The territorial expansion of the United States in the nineteenth century caused major political, soc...
In Kentucky, the first frontier beyond the Appalachians, Arthur K. Moore finds a unique ground for e...
Otis Rice tells the dramatic story of how the first state beyond the mountains came into being. Kent...
Countless studies of the American West have been written from the viewpoint of history, psychology, ...
For western colonists in the early American backcountry, disputes often ended in bloodshed and death...
The American frontier of the nineteenth century has long been considered as a space wherein tests of...
John G. Clark (1932-2000) was professor of environmental studies and history at the University of Ka...
"There is probably not a student or teacher of American history anywhere who will not in time come u...
The frontier: a space of endless opportunity, where rugged individuals tamed the wilderness and buil...
James Marshall\u27s illuminating study of dispossession on the frontier begins with the autobiograph...
4 p. l., 375 p. 19 cm.Contains bibliographical foot-notes.The significance of the frontier in Ameri...
In American history, the idea of the frontier is both history and mythology. Some scholars approach ...
This thesis is concerned with exploring shifts in the relationship of American culture to nature pro...
Using an interdisciplinary perspective, I have drawn materials from writers who took a philosophical...
While common sense tells us that the 19th-century U.S. was obsessed with individual rights and indiv...
The territorial expansion of the United States in the nineteenth century caused major political, soc...
In Kentucky, the first frontier beyond the Appalachians, Arthur K. Moore finds a unique ground for e...
Otis Rice tells the dramatic story of how the first state beyond the mountains came into being. Kent...
Countless studies of the American West have been written from the viewpoint of history, psychology, ...
For western colonists in the early American backcountry, disputes often ended in bloodshed and death...
The American frontier of the nineteenth century has long been considered as a space wherein tests of...
John G. Clark (1932-2000) was professor of environmental studies and history at the University of Ka...
"There is probably not a student or teacher of American history anywhere who will not in time come u...
The frontier: a space of endless opportunity, where rugged individuals tamed the wilderness and buil...
James Marshall\u27s illuminating study of dispossession on the frontier begins with the autobiograph...
4 p. l., 375 p. 19 cm.Contains bibliographical foot-notes.The significance of the frontier in Ameri...
In American history, the idea of the frontier is both history and mythology. Some scholars approach ...
This thesis is concerned with exploring shifts in the relationship of American culture to nature pro...
Using an interdisciplinary perspective, I have drawn materials from writers who took a philosophical...
While common sense tells us that the 19th-century U.S. was obsessed with individual rights and indiv...
The territorial expansion of the United States in the nineteenth century caused major political, soc...