The frontier mind
By: Arthur K. Moore
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Copyright date: 1957
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; American National characteristics; Literature; Philosophy; Miscelanea Norte Americana (Literatura); Frontier and pioneer life in literature; In literature; History
Description: Daniel Boone and his buckskin compatriots who settled the first trans-Appalachian frontier, Kentucky, provide the human basis for this original and uncompromising re-evaluation of the American West. Were they indeed "noble savages," creators of new Athens, or did they reflect the brutality of their surroundings and the limitations of their cultural origins? Professor Moore takes the latter view. This amusing, immensely readable book examines the origins, motivations and lives of these frontiersmen who sought an earthly paradise and made a nation in their own image -- Back cover
Notes: Original edition has subtitle: A cultural analysis of the Kentucky frontiersman.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A long view of the frontier; title: Eden recovered; title: The garden archetype; title: The tenant of the garden; title: The buckskin hero; title: The playful savage; title: The agent of progress; title: The romance of the frontier; title: The child of nature; title: The rejection of Athens; title: The frontier mind.