and that the wild horse was a favorite subject of Old West painter Frederic Remington: Few symbols are more evocative of power and breakneck freedom, or of the untamable frontier spirit.

Turner argued that the frontier had made the United States ... Theoodore Roosevelt's articles about his years in the Old West, which he called "Cowboy Land." The glorification of the cowboy ...

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