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Bookmark or Share- American frontier - Expansion, Pioneers, Settlers | BritannicaAmerican frontier - Expansion, Pioneers, Settlers: The discovery of gold in California (1848) started a new sequence of treaties designed to extinguish Indian title to lands lying in the path of the overland routes to the Pacific.
- How the Myth of the American Frontier Got Its StartColin Woodard. January/February 2023. Illustration by Eva Vázquez. On the evening of July 12, 1893, in the hall of a massive new Beaux-Arts building that would soon house the Art Institute of...
- American frontier | Definition, Significance, & Maps | BritannicaAmerican frontier, in United States history, the advancing border that marked those lands that had been settled by Europeans. It is characterized by the westward movement of European settlers from their original settlements on the Atlantic coast (17th century) to the Far West (19th century).
- What is the American frontier? | The Old WestThe American frontier, also known as the Old West or the Wild West, includes the geography, history, folklore, and culture in the forward wave of American expansion that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few western territories as states in 1912.
- The American Frontier – Legends of AmericaThe “Frontier” is defined as “a region at the edge of a settled area.” The “American Frontier” began with European settlement on the Atlantic coast and the eastern rivers. The “Frontier” was most often categorized as the western edge of settlement from the start.
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