In a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear these significant words: “Up to and including 1889 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area ...
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Why the Comanche terrified the American frontier

The Comanche were not just another tribe on the frontier. They controlled vast territory and dictated who could pass through it. This video explains how they fought, lived, and maintained power for ...
The Pacific as an American frontier opened in 1784 when the first U.S. ship rounded Cape Horn. According to Heffer, a French scholar and historian, the Pacific frontier saw three stages of exploration ...