{"id":134,"date":"2017-02-07T11:02:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=134"},"modified":"2017-02-07T11:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:02:01","slug":"the-significance-of-the-frontier-in-american-history-1893-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/willa-cather-essays\/the-significance-of-the-frontier-in-american-history-1893-response\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Significance of the Frontier in American History 1893&#8221; response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;The Significance of the Frontier in American History&#8221;, Turner references the impact the wilderness has on the European colonist. Instead of directly talking about the land, as Cather does, Turner references moccasins, the Cherokee, and the Iroquois as changing the Europeans (2). What might Cather think of this portrayal of the West? Does Turner use the American Indian references as allusions to the West as a whole, or is he literally referencing &#8220;Indian&#8221; impact on the frontier?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;The Significance of the Frontier in American History&#8221;, Turner references the impact the wilderness has on the European colonist. Instead of directly talking about the land, as Cather does, Turner references moccasins, the Cherokee, and the Iroquois as changing the Europeans (2). What might Cather think of this portrayal of the West? Does Turner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-willa-cather-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}