The Log Cabin by Andrew Belonsky

Author:Andrew Belonsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Countryman Press
Published: 2017-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

IMAGE 6.14 W. L. Williams’ imaginative postcard soon became standard issue, spreading log cabin lies across the land. (Library of Congress)

That’s certainly the thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner’s 1893 eulogy to the frontier, written in a panic after the 1890 US Census declared the erstwhile hinterlands conquered, destiny completely manifested. Settlement had stretched so far that “there can hardly be said to be a frontier line,”34 read the government report, spurring Turner to glorify the lost land thusly, “It was a naturally radical society . . . characterized by the small farmer, building his log cabin in the wilderness, raising a small crop and a few animals for family use.”35 He went on, “The pioneer had the creative vision of a new order of society. In imagination he pushed back the forest boundary to the confines of a mighty Commonwealth; he willed that log cabins should become the lofty buildings of great cities.”36 Turner sees the cabin as the indispensable epicenter of our democracy, our empire, and our selves. Not a bad gig if you can get it.

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