By Elliott West
Historians have paid little consciousness to the lives and contributions of youngsters who took half in westward enlargement. during this significant research of yankee youth, now on hand back in paperback, Elliott West explores how teenagers helped shape—and in flip have been formed by—the frontier event. Frontier kid's first bright perceptions of the recent nation, whilst deepened through their paintings, play, and exploration, solid a much better bond with their atmosphere than that in their elders. via diaries, journals, letters, novels, and oral and written memories, West has reconstructed the lives of the kids who turned the 1st actually Western iteration.
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Emigration was a sifting. It made for a society heavily weighted with persons of a particular bent. Naturally, specific motives varied. Some claimed moral reasons. "This country needs much Christian exertion," wrote a woman who felt it her duty to come and stay in Oregon. "12 These were updated expressions of the old impulse to use the new land in saving the best of the past while avoiding its sins. Others trusted the West to cure their ills and keep their families healthy. Wounded Civil War veterans hoped their aches would be eased, and "the one-lung army," sufferers of pulmonary ailments, thought the dry climate and champagne air would restore their strength.
Professor Emmy E. Werner of the University of California, Davis, gave me the benefit of her fascinating research on children's responses to stress. Mrs. R. H. Merrill kindly allowed me to read her sister's lengthy memoir of her childhood on the Kansas plains. Teresa Garrity cheerfully typed much of the manuscript and did brave battle with the gremlins in the departmental word processor. To all these, I give my thanks. Early in this project, David Weber encouraged me to make this book part of the Histories of the American Frontier series; his continuing confidence kept my spirits up as the work progressed.
Earlier frontiers had always attracted some who had been willing to make a difficult transition from a distant life. Now, however, the transportation revolution was making the new land increasingly accessible. By 1860 railroads and steamboats could carry immigrants to the eastern plains. Thirty years later several rail lines reached to the Pacific; with smaller "feeder lines" and thousands of miles of stage roads, they opened much of the West to anyone with the inclination and a ticket. Paradoxically, much of this last, most remote frontier was also easiest to reach.