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

• 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.

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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