The Frontier in American History (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Frontier in American History

But the larger part of what has been distinctive and valuable in America's contribution to the history of the human spirit has been due to this nation's peculiar experience in extending its type of frontier into newjegions; and in creating peaceful swim new ideals in the successive vast and differing geographic provinces which together make up the United States. Directly or indirectly these experiences shaped the life of the Eastern as well as the Western States, and even reacted upon the Old World and influenced the direction of its thought and its progress. This experience has been fundamental in the eco nomic, political and social characteristics of the American people and in their conceptions of their destiny.

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