Frontier Violence and the American Mind

Richard Slotkin. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier 1600-1860. Middle- town, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. 670 pp. Michael Paul Rogin. Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and The Subjugation of the American Indian. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. 373 pp. W. Eugene Hollon. Frontier Violence: Another Look. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. 279 pp. During the relatively placid decade of the 1950's historians tended to stress the underlying unity and cohesiveness of American history. Then a period of racial strife, campus turmoil, political assassination, and Viet Nam sparked research into new themes. Those which received attention included violence in America, the white man's treatment of the Indian, and a new look at the importance of the frontier. All three books under review share these concerns. Slotkin and Rogin follow similar intellectual paths while Hollon sets a divergent course

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