The American western Frontier

What factors encouraged American settlers to the West in the mid-Nineteenth Century?   The West and the Frontier has significant meaning to the United States and the continent of North America. It “began at Jamestown and crept across the continent in the following centuries”[1]. Frederick Jackson Turner said “American history has been in a large…

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Vintage: American West During the American Frontier Days