It may not win your assent, but it will force you to reexamine the grounds of your beliefs about the settlement and development of the American West.
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It may not win your assent, but it will force you to reexamine the grounds of your beliefs about the settlement and development of the American West.
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Rare softcover 1st Edition (1957) in illustrated blue wraps with red title. Very Good-condition. Abrasion to the front cover; otherwise, the covers are in good shape. The binding is square and tight though the spine is creased. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. In Kentucky, the first frontier beyond the Appalachians, Arthur K. Moore finds a unique ground for examining some of the basic elements in America's cultural development. There the frontier mind acquired definite form, and there emerged the forces that largely shaped the American West. Moore reveals the Kentucky frontiersman as a colorful, exciting figure about whom there gathered a golden haze of myth from which historians have never been able to free him. He finds that "noble savage" did not possess those high qualities of mind and spirit which both his contemporaries and present-day writers have attributed him. He especially questions the wide and uncritical acceptance of Frederick Jackson Turner's theory that the illiterate emigrants had vast creative powers and made worthwhile contributions to government, education, religion, and literature. 264 pages.