HIST 411-49X

With Chris Lee, Ph.D.

The American Frontier(intro)

A British Perspective: Interesting!

“The American West: Visions and Revisions”

Professor Walsh teaches at the University of Nottingham – her specialties are American Economic

and Social History.

She offers a perspective from a distance – a great opportunity to learn from that perspective

Text: A European Perspective

Rugged Individualism?“The only safe rule is found in a self-adjustingmeter of supply and demand. Do not legislate.Give no bounties. Make equal laws. Securelife and property. And you do not need to givecharity. Open the doors of opportunity totalent and virtue, and they do themselves justice.Property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idleand the imbecile to the industrious, brave,and persevering.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But, the federal government has supported and intervened in settling the westin a scale rarely seen! Settling the west has been a cooperative enterprise.

John Wesley Powell: Definitely Rugged

Research paper/book reports – end of Week Six

Your Instructor

People say that I look like Benjamin Franklin.If you need bifocals to read this, thank Mr Franklin!

Chris Lee: Ph.D. American History and Modern EuropeSt. Louis University

-23 years in the United States Air Force-2005 to present: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)-10 years with Peru State College