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The frontier was never free.

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The Whiskey Rebellion Education & Visitor Center in Washington, PA. By “WeaponizingArchitecture” through Creative Commons.

The Romanticized Frontier and the Realities of Extraction

The mythological American frontier is one of rugged individualism, but this narrative often overlooks how government intervention deeply shaped western development. Frontier …

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