The frontier shaped the modern American mind, society, and culture

If there is a word that shaped the American experience, it's terminal. So, at least, it was argued at the turn of last century, when the terminal as we had known it for nearly three hundred years came to an end. On that event, historian Frederick Jackson Turner said, "The peculiarity of American organisations is, the detail that they are compelled to acclimatize themselves to changes of an increasing persons to the alterations engaged in traversing a continent, in victorious a wilderness, and evolving in every locality of development, from the primitive ...