Excerpt from When the West Is Gone The West is gone. The American frontier has been pushed ever westward from the Alleghenies until halted at last by the broad Pacific. And with the passing of the frontier the pioneer spirit of democracy is fast departing the American scene. What then of the future? The importance of this transition in our national life, all unseen and unsuspected, is the subject of the 1919 Colver Lectures delivered at Brown University by Professor Paxson, a distinguished authority on American history. When the West is Gone is an original and a challenging book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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