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The 46 pages that link to American frontier, each with the reason it gives.

• Western filmNarrower topic: The frontier setting supplies the genre’s landscapes and contested histories.

• Second Great AwakeningNarrower topic: Sparse settlements and weak church institutions created openings for itinerant revivalists.

• John FordNarrower topic: Ford’s Westerns helped turn frontier history into a durable national mythology.

• Homestead ActRelated: Homesteading became a prominent part of the frontier's settlement history.

• American EnglishRelated: Migration across the frontier mixed regional speech and spread new words across the country.

• Frederick Jackson TurnerRelated: Turner treated successive frontier zones as the engine of distinctively American social change.

• Buffalo BillNarrower topic: Cody’s public image depended on stories associated with this contested region.

• Frontier thesisBroader topic: Turner’s argument centers on successive versions of this moving boundary.

• Wild West showNarrower topic: The shows recast this complex history as a dramatic setting of cowboys, conflict, and expansion.

• American folkloreRelated: Frontier stories often shape folklore, though they can obscure Indigenous presence and dispossession.

• CowboyNarrower topic: Cowboys worked within the frontier's changing ranching economy, but were not synonymous with it.

• FrontierBroader topic: Its movement westward joined territorial growth to Indigenous dispossession and changing state authority.

• Tall taleRelated: Frontier settings supplied tall tales with wilderness, work, and distance to exaggerate.

• The RevenantNarrower topic: The film depicts fur trapping and Indigenous-settler conflict within a nineteenth-century frontier setting.

• Western fictionNarrower topic: The frontier supplies the setting and historical tensions behind many Western plots.

• Western United StatesRelated: Its historical movement shaped enduring ideas about where the West begins and ends.

• Frontier justiceNarrower topic: Frontier justice developed amid expansion into places where public institutions lagged behind settlement.

• Ambrose BierceRelated: Bierce’s California reporting and fiction emerged from the violence and mythology of the American West.

• American RomanticismRelated: Frontier writing made wilderness central while often revealing the conflicts and exclusions behind national myths.

• Indian WarsCompared with: Frontier narratives often framed expansion as progress while obscuring Indigenous dispossession and resistance.

• The Good, the Bad and the UglyRelated: The film uses frontier landscapes as a setting for lawlessness, war, and survival.

• American WestCompared with: The frontier is a historical process and idea, not a synonym for the entire West.

• Paul BunyanRelated: Bunyan’s stories turn frontier labor and expansion into comic myth.

• Pikes PeakNarrower topic: The rush associated with Pikes Peak became part of the western frontier’s settlement story.

• There Will Be BloodNarrower topic: Plainview’s self-made persona draws on frontier myths even as the film exposes their violence.

• Bret HarteRelated: Harte’s camp stories contributed to literary images of frontier society and its supposed moral codes.

• James Fenimore CooperRelated: Its contested landscapes supply the setting and central tensions of Cooper’s frontier fiction.

• Will RogersRelated: Rogers's cowboy identity drew on popular images of the frontier.

• Willa CatherNarrower topic: Her prairie fiction reimagines settlement as both material struggle and cultural transformation.

• Blood MeridianRelated: The novel depicts the frontier as a site of conquest and brutality, not uncomplicated freedom.

• Jack LondonRelated: London’s wilderness stories helped make frontier survival a durable theme in American popular fiction.

• Laura Ingalls WilderNarrower topic: The family’s westward moves unfolded amid nineteenth-century settlement of the frontier.

• Johnny AppleseedRelated: Chapman’s travels became part of stories about settlement and movement westward.

• Kit CarsonNarrower topic: Carson’s fame and military service grew from the frontier’s expansion and its dispossession of Indigenous peoples.

• Wild Bill HickokNarrower topic: Hickok’s career became part of the popular image of life on this moving border.

• Edward S. CurtisRelated: Curtis’s work arose after U.S. expansion had profoundly altered the communities he photographed.

• History of the firearmRelated: Firearms shaped hunting, settlement, warfare, and coercion on the frontier.

• Luther BurbankRelated: Burbank’s move west placed his work within a period of agricultural expansion.

• Nat LoveNarrower topic: Love’s story belongs to the history later celebrated as the Old West, a narrative often centered on white settlers.

• WesternNarrower topic: The genre turns frontier settlement into a setting for disputes over land, authority, and belonging.

• Zane GreyRelated: The frontier supplied the historical landscape for many of Grey’s stories.

• Bronc ridingNarrower topic: The mythology and practices surrounding bronc riding draw heavily on frontier-era horsemanship.

• Cowboy hatNarrower topic: The cowboy hat’s popular identity grew from nineteenth-century Western frontier imagery.

• Doc HollidayNarrower topic: Holliday’s career unfolded amid frontier migration, mining booms, and weak local institutions.

• JackalopeNarrower topic: The jackalope became part of the frontier’s culture of hunting stories and exaggerated claims.

• Louis L’AmourRelated: Its landscapes and settlement history supply the setting for many L’Amour stories.