For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the Frontier Myth is surprisingly flexible.
How else to explain its having taken two such different guises in the twentieth century-the progressive, forward-looking Politics of Rough Rider president Teddy Roosevelt and the conservative, old-fashioned character and Cold War Politics of Ronald Reagan? This is the conundrum at the heart of Cowboy Presidents , which explores the deployment and consequent transformation of the Frontier my.
For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the Frontier Myth is surprisingly flexible