Many people group the entire westward expansion into “the frontier” but there is much more to it. There is the trader’s frontier, the rancher’s frontier, the miner’s frontier, and the farmer’s frontier. “The unequal rate of advance compels us to distinguish the frontier into the trader's frontier, the rancher's frontier, or the miner's frontier, and the farmer's frontier.” They each had their own reasons to find new opportunities, and the idea of an unexplored land with nothing to lose lured them to settle westward. The history of the American Frontier fits into the theme “space and place” very well. Settlers moved westward to new spaces to find a place that they could make their new home. The idea of opportunity drove them there and their drive to make their life something new kept them going. Depending on what frontier they were in, they had different reasons to settle the American west, but they worked together to make the American west their
Many people group the entire westward expansion into “the frontier” but there is much more to it. There is the trader’s frontier, the rancher’s frontier, the miner’s frontier, and the farmer’s frontier. “The unequal rate of advance compels us to distinguish the frontier into the trader's frontier, the rancher's frontier, or the miner's frontier, and the farmer's frontier.” They each had their own reasons to find new opportunities, and the idea of an unexplored land with nothing to lose lured them to settle westward. The history of the American Frontier fits into the theme “space and place” very well. Settlers moved westward to new spaces to find a place that they could make their new home. The idea of opportunity drove them there and their drive to make their life something new kept them going. Depending on what frontier they were in, they had different reasons to settle the American west, but they worked together to make the American west their