The Frontier
HE frontier, as they called this region, has been a powerful influence in American history. The frontier means the outer edge of settlement; and, with successive waves of immigration, this outer edge was steadily pushed farther west — to the Mississippi, then to the Rockies, then to the Pacific coast. Periodically, as each new area became settled, it began to assert its own claims and interests in protest against the dominance of the older eastern regions. On the frontier, American | civilisation with its towns, and schools, and farms, its highways and, later, its’ railroadsall this was rough hewn out of forest and mountain and prairie. When the frontier first raised a voice of its own, it spoke the accents of democracy. The pioneers had brought their traditions with them; but in a new land, unencumbered by vested rights, they could select and choose what they would retain from the past, giving a new meaning to constitutional formulas of liberty and equality.-("A Survey of American History: From Jefferson to Jackson." Professor Leslie Lipson, 2YA, May 4.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 152, 22 May 1942, Page 3
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176The Frontier New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 152, 22 May 1942, Page 3
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