How the West Was Lost
Stephen Aron’s book How the West Was Lost gives a complex and yet insightful view of the transformation of the Western Frontier and the role Kentucky placated on Americas expansion.
Aron agrees with in Frederick Jackson Turner’s view of Kentucky’s significance in the westward expansion of America. Aron starts off with “the world of Daniel Boone gave way to that of Henry Clay.”1; this sets the stage with Aron showing a link from one way of life to the transformation to the next stage of the transformation of life for Kentuckians and the transformation of Kentucky herself. Aron shows the disappearance of ways of life and the becoming’s from the frontier to a borderland to settled community. Aron focuses on the relationship of Kentucky with Daniel Boone and Henry Clay showing that they were a catalytic force that forever shaped the path for Kentucky. Kentucky was an “unparalleled hunting ground “2, as explained by Aron. If you look back further into time, and remember another reading we did, Cronon, in Changes in the Land wrote a similar context to the views of New England. When the colonists came over they were astonished with the “merchantable commodities“3.
The backcountry was geographically recognizable area of the frontier. The backcountry as Aron writes his insights in the book How the West Was Lost, shows us this backcountry was an area that transitioned by society to become a valuable part of American westward expansion. Native Americans were a key factor in development of the backcountry history, with the frontier being exposed and trafficking hunters, traders and white settlers. The backcountry had played a strong hand in with the Native American, as Aron states as "a meeting of hunters" 4 ;these cultures interactions and trade played an important role in the future of Kentucky’s paradise being lost and changed forever.
The earlier migrants to the backcountry originally adapted to the Native Americans ways and customs; which evoked bad views of
Aron agrees with in Frederick Jackson Turner’s view of Kentucky’s significance in the westward expansion of America. Aron starts off with “the world of Daniel Boone gave way to that of Henry Clay.”1; this sets the stage with Aron showing a link from one way of life to the transformation to the next stage of the transformation of life for Kentuckians and the transformation of Kentucky herself. Aron shows the disappearance of ways of life and the becoming’s from the frontier to a borderland to settled community. Aron focuses on the relationship of Kentucky with Daniel Boone and Henry Clay showing that they were a catalytic force that forever shaped the path for Kentucky. Kentucky was an “unparalleled hunting ground “2, as explained by Aron. If you look back further into time, and remember another reading we did, Cronon, in Changes in the Land wrote a similar context to the views of New England. When the colonists came over they were astonished with the “merchantable commodities“3.
The backcountry was geographically recognizable area of the frontier. The backcountry as Aron writes his insights in the book How the West Was Lost, shows us this backcountry was an area that transitioned by society to become a valuable part of American westward expansion. Native Americans were a key factor in development of the backcountry history, with the frontier being exposed and trafficking hunters, traders and white settlers. The backcountry had played a strong hand in with the Native American, as Aron states as "a meeting of hunters" 4 ;these cultures interactions and trade played an important role in the future of Kentucky’s paradise being lost and changed forever.
The earlier migrants to the backcountry originally adapted to the Native Americans ways and customs; which evoked bad views of