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What accounts for the persistence of the “frontier myth” in American history? The images collected in this exhibition illustrate some of the contradictory ways that Americans have fashioned meaning out of the frontier idea from the seventeenth century to the present. As these objects all show, the "frontier" has been as much a state of mind as a place and time. Curated by Bowdoin College Associate Professor Matthew Klingle.
Pictured above:
James Hope, American, 1819-1892, Waterfall in the Mountains, 1867, oil on canvas, Gift of Miss Susan Dwight Bliss, 1948.16
