Image and Imagination: Art of the American West
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![]() St. Louis, Missouri. Broadway Avenue, in the Illustrated London News, May 1, 1858 Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis |
The frontier is the outer edge of the wave - the meeting point - between savagery and civilization ... the line of most rapid and effective Americanization. The wilderness masters the colonist. Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1894 |
![]() Oscar Berninghaus, Six Horse Stage, oil on canvas, 1918. Courtesy the Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts |
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