{"product_id":"bbc0000083450","title":"The Frontier Mind - Moore, Arthur K.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe Frontier Mind\u003c\/u\u003e by Moore, Arthur K.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by McGraw-Hill Paperbacks (Universit of Kentucky Press), 1963.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: Underlining and marginalia scattered throughout.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\nIn 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.\u2028\u2028Moore 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 writers have attributed him. He especially questions the wide and uncritical acceptance of Frederick Jackson Turner's theory that the illiterate emigrants had vast creative powers and made worthwhile contributions to government, education, religion, and literature.\u2028\u2028The author, professor of English at the University of Kentucky, has shown how unlikely it was that the uncouth frontiersmen, subjected as they were to brutalizing influences and separated from the main stream of Western civilization, could find in themselves the intellectual and spiritual resources to create a distinctive culture. Far from displaying the benevolence and rationality imputed to men living close to nature, the frontiersmen proved themselves addicted to demagogism, narrow sectarianism, materialism, and anti-intellectualism.\u2028\u2028The Frontier Mind is an uncompromising book. It may not win your assent, but it will force you to reexamine the grounds of your beliefs about the settlement and development of the American West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGraw-Hill Paperbacks (Universit of Kentucky Press), 1963.","offers":[{"title":"The Frontier Mind \/ Good","offer_id":53250716991780,"sku":"BBC0000083450GD","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_640045cd-dfd4-4427-bb7d-a95fca11e0eb.jpg?v=1781792862","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/bbc0000083450","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}