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“The idea of the frontier runs so deep in American culture that we internalize the idea that to find nature—real nature—you have to get…

— Christopher Brown

“The ferocious virtues that had been necessary for survival on the American frontier were theirs: they were men who lived freely, wastefully, independently, and…

— Wallace Stegner

“Writing has taught me that the frontier isn’t always a place. Sometimes it’s a season of your life. The space between who you were…

— Dustin Lee

“The frontier isn’t always a place. Sometimes it’s a season of your life. The space between who you were and who you might still…

— Dustin Lee

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be…

— Barbara Tuchman

“I have a tremendous fascination with the United States of America, the grand, swirling variousness of it, the way it siphons off the ambitious,…

— Roland Merullo

“Being on the frontier, as I've said, required doing rather than imagining: clearing land, building shelter, obtaining food supplies. Frontiers test ideologies like nothing…

— Robert D. Kaplan

Throughout the history of America, we have been a nation driven by the idea of the frontier - a place where law was slim…

— Ben Domenech

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the…

— Anna Deavere Smith

“No other frontier has ever inspired so many of its people to write. The scenes of California, and the experiences of getting there an…

— Walton Bean

“While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm, they purified…

— Frank E. Vandiver

“Both were men who knew the frontier code and each other. At a time of action speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.”

— William MacLeod Raine