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3 days ago · The rise and fall of America’s frontier towns reflect the broader story of the American West—a tale of opportunity, conflict, and eventual transformation. Though the cattle drives, gold rushes, and gunfights have long since passed, their legacy lives on.
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May 13, 2024 · As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term the West changed. Before about 1800, the crest of the Appalachian Mountains was seen as the western frontier. The frontier moved westward and eventually the lands west of the Mississippi River were considered the West.
5 days ago · American frontier, in United States history, the advancing border that marked those lands that had been settled by Europeans. It is characterized by the westward movement of European settlers from their original settlements on the Atlantic coast (17th century) to the Far West (19th century).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · American frontier Map of the western United States in 1846. Out of the frontier and the West which it left behind came a goodly share of the country’s problems and not a few of its most bitter conflicts. The steady advance of population produced recurring clashes with the Native American population.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · Frontiers: A Short History of the American West [The Lamar Series in Western History] John Mack Faragher, Robert V. Hine Yale University Press, 2007 [illustrated edition, hardback] [English]
5 days ago · American frontier - Exploration, Expansion, Pioneers: The second great westward push carried the frontier across the Alleghenies and deep into the heart of the continent. By 1800 Kentucky and Tennessee had entered the union as states, and Ohio was soon to follow them.
1 day ago · Bolton’s “Spanish Borderlands” scholarship was intended as a counterpoint to Frederick Jackson Turner’s Anglo-centric frontier thesis, which foregrounded a westward-moving frontier as the crucible that forged America’s exceptional national character (Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”).
