The frontier myth or myth of the West is one of the influential myths in American culture. The frontier is the concept of a place that exists at the edge of a civilization, particularly during a period of expansion. The American frontier occurred throughout the 17th to 20th centuries as European Americans colonized and expanded across North America. This period of time became romanticized and idealized in literature and art to form a myth. Richard Slotkin, a prominent scholar on the subject, defines the myth of the frontier as "America as a wide-open land of unlimited opportunity for the strong, ambitious, self-reliant individual to thrust his way to the top."[1]
^Slotkin, Richard (1973). Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press. p. 5.
The frontiermyth or myth of the West is one of the influential myths in American culture. The frontier is the concept of a place that exists at the edge...
The Frontier Thesis, also known as Turner's Thesis or American frontierism, is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that...
states and taught courses on the frontier influenced by his ideas. Scholars have debunked many of the myths of the frontier, but they nevertheless live on...
Endless Frontier Act Bernstein, Irving. Promises kept: John F. Kennedy's new frontier (Oxford University Press, 1993). Dorsey, Leroy G. "The myth of war...
Republic 13.2 (1993): 144–163. online Hofstadter, Richard. "Turner and the frontiermyth." The American Scholar (1949): 433–443. online; hostile. Limerick, Patricia...
Figes, Crimea, Penguin, 2011, p.89 Richard Hofstadter, “Turner and the FrontierMyth.” American Scholar 18#4 (1949), pp. 433–43. online LaFeber, Walter (1963)...
29, 2023. Woodard, Colin (January–February 2023). "How the Myth of the American Frontier Got Its Start". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved January 6, 2023...
myth to the American frontiermyth of the Wild West. Several scholars, including Robert Traba [pl], point out the similarity between the Kresy myth and...
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America is a book written by Greg Grandin, which won 2020's Pulitzer Prize for...
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the frontiermyth, Jim Crow laws, settler colonialism, and women's suffrage, inspired...
Historical, Scientific and Adventurous Rose, Ian (April 25, 2024). "Frontiermyth vilified the California grizzly. Science tells a new story". The Washington...
growing" culture. Scholar Eric Greene argues this is reflective of the "frontiermyth" of Star Trek and American foreign policy in the late 20th century,...
A frontier is the political and geographical area near or beyond a boundary. A frontier can also be referred to as a "front". The term came from French...
the Frontiers reader. University of Nebraska Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-8032-8382-2. Henry Tudor's definition. Flood, Christopher (2001). Political Myth. Routledge...
A national myth is an inspiring narrative or anecdote about a nation's past. Such myths often serve as important national symbols and affirm a set of national...
but on the American myth overall. Within the first lines of the poem, multiple critics have connected the poem to the Frontiermyth. Frost is “provoking...
Christopher S. "Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus: An Affirmation of the FrontierMyth." Steinbeck Quarterly 25.03-04 (Summer/Fall 1992): 98–108. The Wayward...
The Habsburg Myth (German: Habsburgischer Mythos or Habsburgmythos; Italian: Mito asburgico) is the name given to a political myth present in the historiography...
Furniss, Elizabeth (2011). The Burden of History: Colonialism and the FrontierMyth in a Rural Canadian Community. University of British Columbia Press...
Leroy G (1997), "The FrontierMyth and Teddy Roosevelt's Fight for Conservation", in Gerster, Patrick; Cords, Nicholas (eds.), Myth America: A Historical...
That Remade America by Garry Wills (1993), and The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin (2020)...
Stuart N. Lake popularized the myth of the Buntline Special. In his highly fictionalized biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, published in 1931, he...
paradigm. Communication Quarterly, 298–310. Opt, S. K. (1996). American frontiermyth and the flight of Apollo 13: From news event to feature film. Film and...
Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Norton, 1981. online Boatright, Mody C. "The Myth of Frontier Individualism." Southwestern...
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