Opportunity and Persistence in the Pacific Northwest

HISTORIANS WHO DESCRIBE the American West as offering optimum opportunity assume, usually without reference to adequate evidence, that initiative, frugality, innovation, and hard work assured economic success. According to these writers, such qualities were characteristic of the westward movement in the nineteenth century.1 This vision of the American West is especially prominent in memoirs, local histories, and travel accounts.2 In most instances the vision is based on the selective testimony of people who recorded their experiences. Moreover, studies expressing this theme employ traditional rather than quantitative research methods to examine opportunity and success on the frontier. Consequently, they usually deal with stable populations. Often such an approach results in a history that is only a catalog of colorful incidents and anecdotes

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• Fraternalism and Community Structure on the Urban Frontier

  William Toll•Pacific Historical Review•1978

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• Population Dynamics in Rural Missouri, 1860–1880

  Open Access•Mary Eschelbach Gregson•Social Science History•1997

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• The Submergence of a People

  David Hornbeck, Mary Tucey•Pacific Historical Review•1977

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• Mobility and Occupational Structure on the Late Nineteenth-Century Urban Frontier

  Robert M Tank•Pacific Historical Review•1978

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• The Frontier Thesis and Social Mobility on the Mining Frontier

  Richard H Peterson•Pacific Historical Review•1975

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• Frontier Opportunity and the New Social History

  Ralph Mann•Pacific Historical Review•1984

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• A Nineteenth-Century Resource for Agricultural History Research in the Twenty-First Century

  Jeremy Atack•Agricultural History•2004

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• Social Mobility and Reproduction Among Nineteenth-Century Colorado Silver Prospectors

  Open Access•Susan M Glover, Mary Elizabeth King•Journal of Family History•2011

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• Making of the English Working Class

  E P Thompson•Making of the English Working Class•2013

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• The Comparative Approach to American History

  Richard P Mccormick, C Vann Woodward•The American Historical Review•1969

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• Poverty and Progress

  Stephan Thernstrom•Poverty and Progress•1964

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• Boston's Immigrants

  John Higham, Oscar Handlin•The New England Quarterly•1959

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• Democracy in the Connecticut Frontier Town of Kent

  Clifford K Shipton, Charles S Grant•The Mississippi Valley Historical…•1961

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• The Making of an American Community

  Ted C Smith, Merle Curti•The Western Political Quarterly•1960

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• The Making of an American Community

  Open Access•Chester Mcarthur Destler•Political Science Quarterly•1959

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• Towards A New Past

  Irwin Unger, Barton J Bernstein•Journal of American History•1968

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• The Grassland of North America

  Harold E Briggs, James C Malin•The Mississippi Valley Historical…•1948

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• The Making of an American Community, a Case Study of Democracy in a Frontier County

  Charlotte Erickson, Merle Curti•British Journal of Sociology•1960

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• The Historian and the City

  William Petersen, Oscar Handlin et al.•American Sociological Review•1964

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• Boston's Immigrants

  Charlotte Erickson, Oscar Handlin•Population Studies•1960

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• A Meaning for Turner's Frontier

  Open Access•Stanley Elkin, Stanley Elkins et al.•Political Science Quarterly•1954

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• Reminiscences of a Pioneer

  George Sarton•Osiris•1954

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• Economic Development and Social Structure in Colonial Boston

  James A Henretta•The William and Mary Quarterly•1965

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• The Cultural Approach to History

  Irving A Leonard, Caroline F Ware•Hispanic American Historical Review•1941

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