What was the West to many Americans during the turn of the 19th century?

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Sim W.
Feb 26, 2017

It was considered as wilderness.

Explanation:

The conquest of the West was completed in 1890 when the frontier was closed by the Census Bureau. For many Americans the West embodied the unknown, theuncivilized, and maybe some undiscovered resources.

The notion of frontier ephasized by the famous historian Jackson-Turner clearly emphsizes this opposition between what is civilized and known and what is still part of the wilderness.

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