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Mary Rowlandson (c. 1635-c. 1678), "Indian Captivity" (1676) The Declaration of Independence (1776) The Constitution of the United States of America (1789) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), "Instructions to Meriwether Lewis" (1803) Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838), Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok (1824) James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), The Last of the Mohicans (1826--about 1760s-1770s) Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895), Narrative (1845--about 1790s-1850s) Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851--about 1800s-1840s) Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Walden (1854) Walt Whitman (1819-1892); Leaves of Grass (1855-) Bret Harte (1836-1902), "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and Other Short Stories (1870) Brooklyn Bridge (1883) Mark Twain (1835-1910), Roughing It (1891) Frederick Jackson Turner(1861-1932), "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) Thomas Edison (1847-1931), Parade of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (1898) Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938), "Impressions of an Indian Childhood" (1900--about 1870s-1880s) Mary Austin (1868-1934), The Land of Little Rain (1903) Edwin S. Porter (1869-1941), The Great Train Robbery (1903) William Cody (1846-1917), The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (1914--about 1860s-1880s) H.D. (1886-1961) (poetry mostly 1921-1944) John Neihardt (1881-1973), Black Elk Speaks (1932--about 1860s-1900) Robert Johnson (1911-1938), Crossroad Blues and Hellhound on My Tail (1936) John Steinbeck (1902-1968), The Harvest Gypsies (1936-1939) Zora Neale Hurston (190?-1960), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937--about 1800s) John Ford (1894-1973), Stagecoach (1939) John Steinbeck (1902-1968), The Grapes of Wrath (1939) John Ford (1894-1973), The Grapes of Wrath (1940) William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) (poetry mostly 1909-1962) Ray Bradbury (1920-), The Martian Chronicles (1950) John Ford (1894-1973), The Searchers (1956) Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff (film) (1984--about 1960s) Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (1989--about 1900-present) Peter Guralnick, Searching for Robert Johnson (1989--about 1920s-1930s) Michael Mann, The Last of the Mohicans (film) (1992--about 1760s-1770s) Northern Exposure (1990s) Richard Slotkin (1942-), "The Significance of the Frontier Myth in American History" (1992) |