Americans Recaptured: Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity

by Dr. Molly K. Varley

It was on the frontier, where "civilized" men and women confronted the "wilderness," that Europeans first became Americans--or so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism for fixing their collective identity; and they found it, historian Molly K. Varley suggests, in tales of white Americans held captive by Indians.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806194057
• ISBN13: 9780806194059
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"