TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moore,Arthur Keister
TI  - The frontier mind: a cultural analysis of the Kentucky frontiersman
T2  - Kentucky paperbacks
SN  - 9780813163802
AV  - F454 .F766 1957
PY  - 1957///
CY  - [Lexington]
PB  - University of Kentucky Press
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Kentucky
KW  - In literature
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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