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The frontier mind : a cultural analysis of the Kentucky frontiersman.
In Kentucky, the first frontier beyond the Appalachians, Arthur K. Moore finds a unique ground for examining some of the basic elements in America's cultural development. There the frontier mind acquired definite form, and there emerged the forces that largely shaped the American West. Moore re...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Lexington] :
University of Kentucky Press,
[1957]
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| Colección: | Kentucky paperbacks ;
118. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In Kentucky, the first frontier beyond the Appalachians, Arthur K. Moore finds a unique ground for examining some of the basic elements in America's cultural development. There the frontier mind acquired definite form, and there emerged the forces that largely shaped the American West. Moore reveals the Kentucky frontiersman as a colorful, exciting figure about whom there gathered a golden haze of myth from which historians have never been able to free him. He finds that ""noble savage"" did not possess those high qualities of mind and spirit which both his contemporaries and present-day writer. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780813163802 0813163803 |