The Significance of the Frontier in American History

08.10.2005 - 4:10 p.m.

Chptr. 254, page 3:
"What you said was so smart you made my computer screen flicker from a power surge. And I even use surge suppressors."

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes; but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

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Chptr 3, page 873:
This country's Rocky Mountain range, lovingly nicknamed "The Rockies", act as more than a physical continental divide. Somewhere in it's peaks lies a psychological divide as well that seperates this county in two.

Something unpleasantly dark was found there, where the true nature of the frontier showed it's ugly face in Donner Party-fashion.

To this day, California is still in the habit of eating it's young.

Just look at the lives of discarded child actors, strewn about like bones picked-clean. Reminders of the frontier menatle ingrained in us all.

out to pasture - to the barn raising