on the road

by

roger jones

part 1

Source: "Myth Of The American Frontier." 04 Apr 2013

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“Frontier” means

borderland, or the limits

of exploration.

Emanuel Leutze - Westward the Course of Empire

Takes Its Way

Settlers claimed or bought land

for farming, ranching, or building a

home.

Pioneers were the first people to

enter a new land.

ince the beginning of the

Source: "Myth Of The American Frontier." 04 Apr 2013

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European settlements,

Westward expansion

had always inspired

those who dreamed of a

new life.

Spain and

Mexico

France Great Britain

still part of American

culture, but it is now

more of an attitude or

dream than a reality.

he “Frontier Spirit” is

Easy Rider, 1969

figures of the cowboy

and the pioneer

represent?

hat values do the

Aaron Sachs, syllabus for THE WEST AND BEYOND: FRONTIERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE

Cowboy, 1880s

Cowboys were highly skilled. They

could ride, shoot, lasso, wrangle,

round up, herd, cross rivers, 'turn'

stampedes, scout, keep watch and

drive off rustlers - all in rain, hail, and

burning sun.

Frederick Remington, A Dash for the Timber, 1889

Popular

fiction

Most often, the term "American

West" is used for the area west of

the Mississippi River during the

19th century.

West Midwest East

Mississippi River

Patterns of migration to the west

A trail between Independence,

Missouri and Santa Fe, Mexico that

was used for 60 years to carry

merchandise to and from the

southwest.

Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail

The Oregon Trail ran for two

thousand miles between

Independence, Missouri and the

northwest corner of Oregon

OregonTrail

400,000 men, women, and children walked

2,000 miles in six months in wagon trains on

the Oregon Trail

on the Oregon Trail

[Oregon Trail Documentary]

Death of Tecumseh

Sitting Bull

frontier life

wagon train

homesteading

Adeline Hornbeck

"California Gold Diggers, Mining Operations on the Western Shore of the Sacramento River," lithograph published by Kellogg & Comstock, New York and Hartford [c. 1849-52]. 26 cm x 36 cm. Courtesy of the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

California Gold Rush 1849

California Gold Rush 1849

Merchant ships fill San Francisco harbor, 1850-51

Pony Express 1860

Horses and riders carried mail from

St. Joseph, Missouri to

Sacramento, California

Pony Express riders

trans-continental railroad 1869

trans-continental railroad 1869

transcontinental railroad

1869 – the golden spike

1889 Oklahoma Land Run

On April 22, over 100,000 settlers and

cattlemen (known as "boomers") lined up

at the border, and with the army's guns

and bugles giving the signal, began a

mad dash into the newly opened land to

stake their claims .

In 1889, President Benjamin Harrison

authorized the opening of 2,000,000

acres (8,100 km2) of unoccupied lands in

the Oklahoma territory acquired from the

native tribes.

1948

John Wayne & Montgomery Clift,

Red River, 1948

The Searchers, 1956

1960

A Fistful of Dollars, 1964