America's frontier heritage /
Ray Allen Billington; foreword by Martin Ridge
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1974
- xviii, 310 p. ; 24 cm.
- Histories of the American Frontier .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-302) and index.
The history of a theory -- Why and how pioneers moved westward -- The frontier and the American character -- The frontier: cradle of barbarism or civilization -- The structure of frontier society -- Frontier democracy: political aspects -- Frontier democracy: social aspects -- The economic impact of the frontier -- The frontier and the migratory compulsion -- The frontier and American behavioral patterns -- The persistence of frontier traits.
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Frontier and pioneer life--United States. National characteristics, American. Vie des pionniers--Etats-Unis. Americains.