The frontier mind : a cultural analysis of the Kentucky frontiersman.
- [Lexington] : University of Kentucky Press, (c)1957.
- 1 online resource (264 pages)
- Kentucky paperbacks ; 118 .
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; CHAPTER 1. A Long View of the Frontier; I. The Garden of the West; CHAPTER 2. Eden Recovered; CHAPTER 3. The Garden Archetype; II. The Heroic Age; CHAPTER 4. The Tenant of the Garden; CHAPTER 5. The Buckskin Hero; CHAPTER 6. The Playful Savage; III. The Forest and the City; CHAPTER 7. The Agent of Progress; CHAPTER 8. The Romance of the Frontier; CHAPTER 9. The Child of Nature; CHAPTER 10. The Rejection of Athens; CHAPTER 11. The Frontier Mind; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y.
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 possess those high qualities of mind and spirit which both his contemporaries and present-day writer.
9780813163802
National characteristics, American. Frontier and pioneer life--Kentucky. Frontier and pioneer life--Kentucky. Kentucky--In literature. Kentucky--Intellectual life. National characteristics, American. United States--History--Philosophy.