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American Frontier

Kill any race besides ours we are superior they are inequivilant to us. Those savage indians, cruel americans, those damn immigrants. bang bang boom boom! Any of this sound familiar? What about come on out west experience the frontier life come experience   the land of prosperity where the grass couldn't be greener the water couldn't taste better and where God casts sunlight on those individuals who are willing to work hard. All of this is part of the Frontier life. Judging whether or not the Frontier life was good may vary from group to group east to west race to race, person to person. There is no way of defining that western life known as frontier life just mere thoughts feelings and keepsakes left behind by those who lived it. In this paper I will attempt to explain what life was like on the western frontier for Indians as well as settlers. I will explain how those documents left behind from the inhabitants of the west at that time were different from Frederick Jackson Turners idea of hard working whites conquering the lands of the indians. I will also attempt to explain how those documents viewed race, as well as ho the pioneer experience changed notions of property, land use, justice and social order. There is no single way or no right of wrong way of describing that good old west in the gilded age (1870-1900) therefore I will show exactly how this frontier experience transformed american life and yes indeed it did!
Were those indians and settlers happy with living on the frontier west? The answer to that question is simple, not really. in fact for those people occupying the west at that time it may have been the total opposite from living a happy life. That image of that perfect west was a falsity from day one. The notion of the western expansion guaranteeing prosperity and promoting the american dream was pure bologna, it wasn't true at all. I mean yes of course it may have offered some good things like a slightly better chance for   most to manage and...