{"id":171,"date":"2017-02-10T11:57:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=171"},"modified":"2017-02-10T11:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:57:14","slug":"the-significance-of-the-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/willa-cather-essays\/the-significance-of-the-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"The Significance of the Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When reading Turner&#8217;s excerpts, I was reminded of the fact that people experienced the frontier differently depending on where they were and when they arrived. We touched upon this topic in class, but I think it is something that requires\u00a0more attention. In my mind, I think of the frontier as one thing: a place in the middle of the country with lots of prairies and Indian tribes. However, it is important we don&#8217;t have this singular image of the frontier stuck in our minds because it takes away the significance of the individualism that exists for each region. Turner talks about how, &#8220;it is evident that the farming frontier of the Mississippi Valley presents different conditions from the mining frontier of the Rocky Mountains&#8221; (4). We have to also remember that there were many different types of Indian tribes that inhabited these regions. Each encounter could pose a new challenge\u00a0depending on who was already there. When the pioneers packed up their things to move out West, each person had a very different experience and I think that this is something that we should not discount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When reading Turner&#8217;s excerpts, I was reminded of the fact that people experienced the frontier differently depending on where they were and when they arrived. We touched upon this topic in class, but I think it is something that requires\u00a0more attention. In my mind, I think of the frontier as one thing: a place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","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\/171","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\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}