Western Frontier

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This article looks at several aspects of the migration to the Western Frontier. An insight to the type of people who became settlers in the Western Frontier is shown. The writer discusses the significance involved in this transition and the qualities and development of the frontier regions. The writer discusses how the frontier experience of Americans in the late 19th century played an essential part in the making of the country's national character and development of democracy. The writer studies the views of three authors,Turner, Billington and Wister, who provide an understanding into how Americans observed the West and the unique men and women who made it their home.

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"For the settlers coming to the Americas in the 1600s and 1700s, this new country was wide open and offered the opportunity to seek a life free from the constraints of the Old World. However, once the East began to be populated by the refinery of the Europeans, it was no longer that rough and wild world where anything or everything was accepted. Thus, in the 1800s, it was time for the adventurous to move again--this time to the Western plains and deserts--to seek their fate. Historians and authors such as Frederick Jackson Turner, Ray Allen Billington and Owen Wister developed theories and wrote about the impact of this land on the new Americans."

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