The Comanche were one of the most powerful forces on the American frontier. Through skill, strategy, and mobility, they controlled vast regions of the Southern Plains and resisted colonial expansion ...

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The American Wild West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, a mythological landscape populated by quick-draw gunslingers, solitary cowboys riding into sunsets, lawless frontier towns ...

Introduction: the significance of the frontier myth in American history -- pt. 1. The mythology of progressivism, 1880-1902 -- The winning of the West: Theodore Roosevelt's frontier thesis, 1880-1900 ...

In April 1924, a road crew was working in Sequoia National Park, near the spectacular granite dome of Moro Rock, when a large shape emerged from the woods. These workers had previously been stationed ...

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their appeals to the American electorate on the basis of personality, character and policy. But they are also framing themselves as actors in the American ...

I belong to the last generation of Americans that grew up with Western heroes. Yet by the 1970s, all that had slipped away. After the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War, it was hard to admire ...

This unsparingly grim Netflix Western draws from a tradition of works eager to push beyond sanitized frontier myths. Here’s a supplementary guide. The trailer for Netflix’s ultraviolent series ...

BENTONVILLE -- Everyone needs a creation myth, a story about where we come from. For a lot of Americans, the myth of the Frontier serves this purpose. We abandoned our old world for a brave new one.