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If you grew up in the 1960s, you know the name, Davy Crockett, an outdoorsman who was nicknamed “The King of the Wild Frontier” by television gurus. But before Mr. Crockett, came Daniel Boone. Who was the real Daniel Boone, and what is The American Frontier? The answer to those two queries depends on who is answering the question, and in what time period the question refers to.

The American Frontier is steeped in the myths of American culture. It’s a geographic place that existed in the seventeenth through the early twentieth century during the period of American expansion. It has been mythologized and romanticized almost since the idea was first brought to America’s earliest European settlers in the 1600s.