American Frontier (Week 10)

Question 1

Answer 1

John Gast, American Progress, 1872

exploration

manifest destiny

conquer land

American national identity

Question 2

Answer 2

Charles Deas, Long Jakes, 1844

romantic image of the West

trapper

masculinity

Question 3

Answer 3

Charles Deas, The Death Struggle, 1845

pure fantasy

wild west

masculinity, calm

doesnt fear danger

Question 4

Answer 4

Charles Deas, Voyaguers, 1845

noble savage

contemplating enevitable demise

powerless

Question 5

Answer 5

William T Ranney, The Trapper’s Last Shot, c. 1850

unknown danger

Question 6

Answer 6

William T. Ranney, Kit Carson, 1845

roaming west

Question 7

Answer 7

George Caleb Bingham, Family Life on the Frontier, before 1845

danger of becoming too civilized

Question 8

Answer 8

George Caleb Bingham, Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap, 1851-52

romantic conventions

use of light

Question 9

Answer 9

A.F. Tait, The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix, 1858

stare down danger

masculinity

idealized west

Question 10

Answer 10

A.F. Tait, Mink Trapping in Northern New York, 1862

Question 11

Answer 11

George Catlin, Painting the Portrait of Mah-to-toh-pa-Mandan, 1857-69

observed/document Indians

Question 12

Answer 12

Charles Bird King, Hayne Hudjihini, 1822

Question 13

Answer 13

Charles Bird King, Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees, 1822

Question 14

Answer 14

Alfred Jacob Miller, Surround of Buffalo by Indians, 1848-58

Question 15

Answer 15

George Caleb Bingham, Captured by Indians, 1848