The history of the American West is being transformed by exciting
new ideas, new questions, new scholarship. For many years this
field was dominated by popular images of the lone cowboy and the
savage Indian, and by Frederick Jackson Turner's concept of the
frontier as a steadily advancing source of democracy and social
renewal. But now historians and even the merchants of popular
culture are reshaping our views of the frontier and the West by
taking up a rich array of new subjects, including the stories of
diverse peoples as well as the history of the land itself. A new
generation of scholars is reformulating the broader questions also:
What was the significance of the frontier in American history? What
are the bases of western identity? What themes connect the
twentieth-century West to its more distant past? The transformation
of western history continues to be an open-ended, turbulent
process. The original essays in this volume are reports from the
frontier of change. In their diverging assumptions and conclusions,
they reflect the vitality of this field. They succeed when they
make the case for new questions and suggest possible answers. They
advocate no single agenda. But taken together they well represent
the passion and high craft with which scholars are creating a new
western history.
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