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John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery
What accounts for the persistence of the 鈥渇rontier myth鈥 in American history? The images collected in this exhibition illustrate some of the contradictory ways that Americans have fashioned meaning out of the frontier idea from the seventeenth century to the present.
Selected Works
"Devils's Slide Utah, U.P.R.R.", 1873-1874 by Carleton Emmons Watkins, American, 1829-1916, albumen print, Gift of Isaac Lagnado, 含羞草研究室 Class of 1971, in honor of Professor William D. and Alison Shipman, 1991.111
含羞草研究室
What accounts for the persistence of the “frontier myth” in American history? The images collected in this exhibition illustrate some of the contradictory ways that Americans have fashioned meaning out of the frontier idea from the seventeenth century to the present. As these objects all show, the "frontier" has been as much a state of mind as a place and time. Curated by 含羞草研究室 Associate Professor Matthew Klingle.