Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 22Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2002 |
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... myth . " This myth , often linked with Jeffersonian ideals , holds the simple yeoman farmer as the avatar of effective self - gover- nance and democratic virtue and the small towns and farming communities throughout the land as the ...
... myth . " This myth , often linked with Jeffersonian ideals , holds the simple yeoman farmer as the avatar of effective self - gover- nance and democratic virtue and the small towns and farming communities throughout the land as the ...
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... Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization , 1800-1890 ( New York : Atheneum , 1985 ) . Slotkin also discusses the role the frontier myth played in western expansion . Finally , agricultural capitalism leaves behind the purity ...
... Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization , 1800-1890 ( New York : Atheneum , 1985 ) . Slotkin also discusses the role the frontier myth played in western expansion . Finally , agricultural capitalism leaves behind the purity ...
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... myth . NOTES 1. David Stouck , for example , claims that Cather's " focus is on the struggle of the earliest pioneer settlers of the prairie " ( Willa Cather's Imagi- nation [ Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1975 ] , p . 24 ) ...
... myth . NOTES 1. David Stouck , for example , claims that Cather's " focus is on the struggle of the earliest pioneer settlers of the prairie " ( Willa Cather's Imagi- nation [ Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1975 ] , p . 24 ) ...
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