The Frontier Mind

By Arthur K. Moore

In Kentucky, the first frontier beyond the Appalachians, Arthur K. Moore finds a unique ground for examining some of the basic elements in America's cultural development. There the frontier mind acquired definite form, and there emerged the forces that largely shaped the American West. Moore reveals the Kentucky frontiersman as a colorful, exciting figure about whom there gathered a golden haze of myth from which historians have never been able to free him. He finds that ""noble savage"" did not

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813153638
• ISBN13: 9780813153636
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher