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The story of America's westward movement is at heart the story of men and women of all origins and beliefs who helped shape the character of a nation. They lived a stirring epic, the telling of which grows ever more fascinating it becomes ever more remote. It has become a romance, a drama of men and women against the forces of a stupendous land and nameless terrors. Pain and violence tormented whites and Indians alike. Here, from award-winning historian David Lavender, is their enduring story.… (mere)
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Richard Henderson, judge of back-country court in Colonial North Carolina, possessed, to borrow his own words, "a rapturous idea of property. In this he was not unique. Many Americans of his time, among them Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, and George Washington, were similarly invigorated.
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By 1914, when the nation could at last transfer some of its enormous energies to America's newer responsibilities as a world power, the frontier had also learned, in part, how to master itself. And that, as even the individualists beyond the Missouri began to realize, was the nation's truest freedom.
The story of America's westward movement is at heart the story of men and women of all origins and beliefs who helped shape the character of a nation. They lived a stirring epic, the telling of which grows ever more fascinating it becomes ever more remote. It has become a romance, a drama of men and women against the forces of a stupendous land and nameless terrors. Pain and violence tormented whites and Indians alike. Here, from award-winning historian David Lavender, is their enduring story.
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