Leading theorist Frederick Jackson Turner went deeper, arguing that the frontier was the scene of a defining process of American civilization: “The frontier,” he asserted, “promoted the formation of a composite nationality for the American people.” The archetypical Old West period is generally accepted by historians to have occurred between the end of the American Civil War in 1865 until the closing of the frontier by the Census Bureau in 1890.Ī frontier is a zone of contact at the edge of a line of settlement. The completion of the railroads to the West following the American Civil War opened up vast areas of the region to settlement and economic development. These old photographs of the American frontier capture life and struggle in the Wild West. Vintage Photos of the Real Wild West, 1870s-1900s
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