Frontier Thesis

The Santa Fe Trail was an 800 mile Trail from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, in New Mexico. The travel along this trail began in 1821 and continued until 1860 where the railroad took over control of the trade; under the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. It traversed what was called the Great American Desert. This was named as such because of the expanse of dry, arid terrain viewed as inhospitable to the nineteenth century contemporaries, and unsuitable for settlement and expansion.…

Throughout the history of American westward expansion, My Darling Clementine implicitly reflects the progress of civilization in frontier towns such as Tombstone and the turning point from wild Western to moral society. At the…

Young America movement. In an attempt to encourage pioneers towards the frontier and to “Go West”, the United States explored the powerful notion of Manifest Destiny, creating the perception that the undiscovered land was given to America through support of Providence. This ideology and its strict adherence during settlement, poses the question: Did manifest destiny have a positive or negative effect on the development of the frontier? Through implementation of notions of optimism, individualism…

been held previously. This model posited that alcoholics could not control their drinking and required medical attention rather than incarceration (Jung, 2001, p. 41). Neil Levy, spoke against the disease model in his journal article published in Frontiers in Psychology in April 11th, 2013. His…

As per my The history of the American West is often overshadowed by the romantic mythology surrounding the era. It would be hard to ignore the influence of Sam Houston on many aspects of American history from Tennessee to Washington and of course, his adopted home of Texas. Campbell seems to fall into the trap of many biographers and veer off the course of serious historian, presenting us instead with an easy to read novel presenting his hero as larger than life. The life of Sam Houston does…

I identified and developed my thesis by trying to explain to the reader how hunting isn’t a bad thing and if you don’t completely understand it you could have miss understood information. My prewriting strategy was to make an outline of what I was going to cover in each paragraph and how I was going to try and inform the reader as much as possible. My entire paper supports the thesis because it tries to inform the reader why I chose to writing about the pros…

California went through one of the most rapid evolutions in the 1850’s thanks to the California Gold Rush. Around this time is when California began to rise to one of the biggest industrial competitors in the world. With the Gold Rush also came this switch from small independent prospectors, to large industrial businesses. Its land resources were starting to be explored and exploited by early Anglo-Americans for its rich potential. Its here in Mining California: An Ecological History by Andrew…

While surveying the western half of the United States an individual can see a wide variety of biomes. The peaks Rocky Mountains, the lush forests of the Pacific Northwest, the arid desserts of the Southwest, but none compare to the Great Plains. The grasslands of North America have a tumultuous history that dates back look before the English setters arrived. Elliott West’s book The Contested Plains sets out to explain the history of the prairie, the rise and fall of the native plain people, and…

America and the move West. His argument entails the belief that every American generation returned “to primitive conditions on a continually advancing frontier line as the “meeting point of savagery and civilization”. His analysis attempts to categorize the past as well as predict future events which appear to be his concern given that the frontier would now be closed. In simple terms he attempted to make history a science. The question emerged: How would America continue to prosper and grow…

influence compared to their eastern counterparts due to the necessity of labor and their control over the family sphere. It was the reality of life in the West that caused the women to re-evaluate the traditional roles attributed to them on the Frontier. Elliot West dives deeper into the urban areas and class differences to divulge variations between the elite and working mothers. As in isolated areas, women rationalized expectations with possibility as their reaction to Victorian expectations.…