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Paperback / softback. New. It was on the frontier, where âcivilizedâ men and women confronted the âwilderness,â that Europeans first became Americansâor so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism for fixing their collective identity; and they found it, historian Molly K. Varley suggests, in tales of white Americans held captive by Indians.<br /><br />For Americans in the Progressive Era (1890â1916) these stories of Indian captivity seemed to prove that the violence of national expansion had been justified, that citizensâ individual suffering had been heroic, and that settlersâ contact with Indians and wilderness still characterized the nationâs âsoul.â Furthermore, in the act of…
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Americans Recaptured: Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity Paperback - 2024
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- Title Americans Recaptured: Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity
- Author Molly K. Varley
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 242
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
- Date 2024-02-26
- ISBN 9780806194059 / 0806194057
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.55 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.40 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.800
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