Memories of the American Frontier
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 200
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Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Museum of American Frontier Culture
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Published: 199?
Total Pages: 6
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederic Logan Paxson
Publisher: New York, Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 636
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1925, Paxson was the first American historian presenting the War of Independence from both American as well as British points of view.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederic L. Paxson
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 802723042X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis eBook edition of "The Last American Frontier (Complete Edition)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The exploration, settlement, exploitation, and conflicts of the "American Old West" form a unique tapestry of events, which has been celebrated by Americans and foreigners alikeāin art, music, dance, novels, magazines, short stories, poetry, theater, video games, movies, radio, television, song, and oral tradition. Many historians of the American West have written about the mythic West; the west of western literature, art and of people's shared memories. But Frederic Paxson's book takes us through the era when the American frontier was undergoing a massive transformation and when the decades old struggles of the Native Americans were finally beginning to make a dent in the old white American history... Frederic Logan Paxson was a Pulitzer Prize winning American historian and an authority on the American frontier.
Author: Cathy Luchetti
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780393059052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the words of the frontiersmen themselves--taken from letters, diaries and memoirs--Luchetti captures the frontiersmen from the East and the Native Americans whose lives were changed forever by their arrival.
Author: Frederic Logan Paxson
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William C. Davis
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780806131290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of "The Fighting Men of the Civil War" now masterfully chronicles the grand history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular attention to exploration, expansion, conflict, and settlement.
Author: Molly Kathleen Varley
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780806144931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was on the frontier, where "civilized" men and women confronted the "wilderness," that Europeans first became Americans--or so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism for fixing their collective identity; and they found it, historian Molly K. Varley suggests, in tales of white Americans held captive by Indians. For Americans in the Progressive Era (1890-1916) these stories of Indian captivity seemed to prove that the violence of national expansion had been justified, that citizens' individual suffering had been heroic, and that settlers' contact with Indians and wilderness still characterized the nation's "soul." Furthermore, in the act of memorializing white Indian captives--through statues, parks, and reissued narratives--small towns found a way of inscribing themselves into the national story. By drawing out the connections between actual captivity, captivity narratives, and the memorializing of white captives, Varley shows how Indian captivity became a means for Progressive Era Americans to look forward by looking back. Local boosters and cultural commentators used Indian captivity to define "Americanism" and to renew those frontier qualities deemed vital to the survival of the nation in the post-frontier world, such as individualism, bravery, ingenuity, enthusiasm, "manliness," and patriotism. In Varley's analysis of the Progressive Era mentality, contact between white captives and Indians represented a stage in the evolution of a new American people and affirmed the contemporary notion of America as a melting pot. Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives changed over time--with shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and ethnographic and historical accuracy--Americans Recaptured shows that tales of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.
Author: Ray Allen Billington
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 872
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough the text sets out the remarkable story of the American frontier, which became, almost from the beginning, an archetypal narrative of the new American nation's successful expansion, the authors do not forget the social, environmental, and human cost of national expansion. While most Americans take pride in the nation's frontier heritage and its associated myths, they also share that history with others--especially with people of color--in whose collective memories the story of the American west is rendered both dark and painful. Westward Expansion encourages an understanding of American "westering" that is mindful of the racism and excessive nationalism that frequently marred the Western frontier experience. At the same time, the authors understand a sense of optimism, a profound faith in individuals' own abilities, the willingness to innovate, and an abiding trust in democracy to be the transcendent values of the frontier experience, traits that continue to influence the character of America's people long after the close of the western frontier.