American Frontier

American frontier meliputi geografi, sejarah, legenda, dan kebudayaan dari suasana kehidupan pada masa perluasan wilayah pemukiman di Amerika dari awal abad ke-17. Jaman tersebut terkadang disebut Old West, atau Wild West, yang dikenal dengan kisah percintaan dan kekerasannya.

Catatan

Bacaan tambahan

Survei 
 Billington, Ray Allen, and Martin Ridge. Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier (5th ed. 2001); 892 pp; textbook with 160pp of detailed annotated bibliographies
 Deverell, William, ed. A Companion to the American West (Blackwell Companions to American History) (2004); 572pp
 Hine, Robert V., and John Mack Faragher. The American West: A New Interpretive History (Yale University Press, 2000). 576 pp.; textbook
 Josephy, Alvin. The American heritage book of the pioneer spirit (1965)
 Lamar, Howard, ed. The New Encyclopedia of the American West (1998); this is a revised version of Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West ed. by Howard Lamar (1977)
 Milner, Clyde, Carol O'Connor, and Martha Sandweiss, eds. The Oxford History of the American West (1994) long essays by scholars
 Utley, Robert M. The Story of The West (2003)
 White, Richard. "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West (1991), textbook focused on post 1890 far west

Great Plain 
 
 Unruh, John David. The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–1860 (1993)

Historiografi 

 Billington, Ray Allen. America's Frontier Heritage (1984), a favorable analysis of Turner's theories in relation to social sciences and historiography
 Etulain, Richard W., “Clio’s Disciples on the Rio Grande: Western History at the University of New Mexico,” New Mexico Historical Review 87 (Summer 2012), 277–98.
 
 Hurtado, Albert L., “Bolton and Turner: The Borderlands and American Exceptionalism,” Western Historical Quarterly, (Spring 2013) 44#1 pp 5–20.
 Limerick, Patricia. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (1987), attacks Turner and promotes the New Western History

Gambar dan memori 
 Brégent-Heald Dominique. "Primitive Encounters: Film and Tourism in the North American West," Western Historical Quarterly (2007) 38#1 (Spring, 2007), pp. 47–67 in JSTOR
 Etulain, Richard W. Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art (1996)
 
 Hyde, Anne Farrar. An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture, 1820-1920 (New York University Press, 1993)
 
 Prown, Jules David, Nancy K. Anderson, and William Cronon, eds. Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West (1994)
 Rothman, Hal K. Devil's Bargains: Tourism and the Twentieth-Century American West (University of Kansas Press, 1998)

Pranala luar 
Kebudayaan
 Western Folklife Center

Sejarah
 Autry National Center of the American West - Los Angeles, California
 American West History
 New Perspectives on 'The West'. The West Film Project, WETA-TV, 2001
 Dodge City, Kansas 'Cowboy Capital' 
 Fort Dodge, Kansas History  by Ida Ellen Rath, 1964 w/ photos
 Old West Kansas
 Tombstone Arizona History

Media
 1908 Book on the Real West Free to read and full text search.