Publication

1974 - University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Language

English

Word Count

77,500 words, Guess

Page Count

310 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC973
  • LCCE179.5 .B62 1974
  • LCCE179.5.B62 1974
and 1 more
  • LCCE179.5 .B62 1974eb

Description

Analysis of the attitudes and behavioral traits judged to be most distinctively "American" by European travelers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Weighs the pros and cons of Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis."

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Histories of the American frontier

Other Editions

  • America's frontier heritageUniversity of New Mexico Press1974

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