Essay Database

Faragher: Beyond the Western Frontier After reading Faragher’s and Dippie’s essays, I found a lot of simularities and differences in their writing and their comments. They both seem to agree on the view of Turner’s comments and it seemed people agreed with these views but his views were never challenged. Once people like Faragher and Dippie challenged Turner’s views, people went from agreeing with Turner’s views to opposing these views. …

…that I got out of the articles that dealt with the west is that people see history and frontiers differently. I myself see things differently, and I think the point of us reading these boring articles is to show that people see things differently, even our nation’s history. These readings brought an awakening to what I see as being the truth. And that I should investigate things in which I think might be controversial.