In his famous 1893 frontier thesis, Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the juncture between the civilization of East and the savagery of the frontier defined America’s image of itself. That may have been true, but one could argue that for the last 90 years or so the American character has been less defined by the realities of life in the Old West tha
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