Introduction: the significance of the frontier myth in American history -- pt. 1. The mythology of progressivism, 1880-1902 -- The winning of the West: Theodore Roosevelt's frontier thesis, 1880-1900 ...
The American Wild West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, a mythological landscape populated by quick-draw gunslingers, solitary cowboys riding into sunsets, lawless frontier towns ...
"This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American life and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier ...