Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

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This book explores the values and aspirations of settlers within the Far West. It compares rural individuals who settled within the Willamette Valley within the 1840s, the Utah Valley within the 1850s, and the Boise Valley within the 1860s. The Oregon and Utah settlers tried with differing degrees of success to withstand the modernizing trends represented by Idaho, but in the long run adopted the individualistic, commercial, and acquisitive values that prevailed within the New West. How did Americans move away from a culture centering on circle of relatives and kin and from attitudes that valued and secure the land, not for its commercial worth, but as the bottom of reinforce for future generations? What led to our present tendency to pursue individual pleasure and subject material well-being on the expense of communal and broader societal well-being? These are questions central to this comparative study of three peoples who pioneered the American frontiers.

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