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Title: Frontier Myths


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Frontier Myths
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  • Angela Brown

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The West by 1900
  • A decline in the amount of unorganized territory
    created the sense that the opportunities of the
    frontier were fading.
  • 1872 the federal government established
    Yellowstone National Park to preserve western
    lands

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  • Nations 1st national park Wyoming, Montana, and
    Idaho
  • 1890 the Superintendent of the census announced
    the end of the frontier.

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Turners Frontier Thesis
  • Fredrick Jackson Turner 1893 claimed the
    frontier had played a central role in forming the
    American character
  • Forced settlers to shed old ways and adapt,
    innovate, and invent

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  • Created Americans who were ready for adventure,
    bent on self-improvement and committed to
    democracy
  • Disregarded contributions of women, African
    Americans, immigrants, government, and big
    business.

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Frontier Realities
  • Diverse Western settlers women, Chinese,
    Japanese, and African Americans
  • buffalo soldiers Native Americans called the
    all-black ninth and tenth cavalry regimen

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Limited View of Democracy
  • gave women the vote before eastern counterparts
    but
  • ran over rights of native Americans and Asians
  • Settlers treated vast resources as though they
    were limitless

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Creating the Myths
  • 1870 dime novels of writers like Edward Wheeler
  • 1883 William F. Cody Buffalo Bill Wild West
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  • 1902 Frederic Remingtons painting The Cowboy

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  • Stereotypes fixed ideas held by people
  • strenuous life for men

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  • 1912 Juliette Low founded the American Girl
    Scouts because she feared civilization had made
    girls too soft.
  • She praised women homesteaders for strength and
    intelligence.
  • Made scouting techniques for tracking woodcrafts,
    and wilderness survival the core of her program.

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  • Reality is much more complex than the myths.
  • It is balance between the dream of endless
    opportunities and the fact that opportunities
    were not equal for all.

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