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Three Frontiers - Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900 (Hardcover, New)
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Three Frontiers - Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History
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This work explores the values and aspirations of settlers in the
Far West. It compares rural people who settled in the Willamette
Valley in the 1840s, the Utah Valley in the 1850s, and the Boise
Valley in the 1860s. The Oregon and Utah settlers tried with
differing degrees of success to resist the modernizing trends
represented by Idaho, but ultimately adopted the individualistic,
commercial and acquisitive values that prevailed in the New West.
How did Americans move away from a culture centering on family and
kin, and from attitudes that valued and protected the land, not for
its commercial worth, but as the base of support for future
generations? What led to our present tendency to pursue individual
pleasure and material well-being at the expense of communal and
broader societal well-being? These are questions central to this
comparative study of three peoples who pioneered the American
frontiers.
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