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The Frontier Culture Museum is the biggest open air museum in the Shenandoah Valley. The museum operates on 200 acres of land in Staunton, Virginia , [1] where it features eleven exhibits, to include traditional rural buildings from Europe, Africa, and America.
A frontier is a zone of contact at the edge of a line of settlement. Theorist Frederick Jackson Turner went deeper, arguing that the frontier was the scene of a defining process of American civilization: "The frontier," he asserted, "promoted the formation of a composite nationality for the American people."
Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area, Inc. (FFNHA) is a federally designated U.S. National Heritage Area located in eastern Kansas and Western Missouri.This heritage area preserves, conserves, and interprets historic and cultural landscapes pertaining to: the shaping of the frontier, the Missouri-Kansas Border War, and the enduring struggle for freedom.
The West as America, Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820–1920 was an art exhibition organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (then known as the National Museum of American Art, or NMAA) in Washington, D.C. in 1991, featuring a large collection of paintings, photographs, and other visual art created during the period from 1820 to 1920 which depicted images and iconography of ...
White Pine Village, Ludington, Michigan [6] Waterloo Farm Museum. Minnesota. Gammelgarden Museum of Scandia. Heman Gibbs Farmstead, Falcon Heights. The Landing, Shakopee. Oliver Kelley Farm, Elk River. Nebraska. Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Grand Island.
Oklahoma Frontier Drug Store Museum was established in 1992 and located in Guthrie, Oklahoma. [1] The museum has an occupancy in the Gaffney Building constructed in 1890 and integral to the Guthrie Historic District . The museum has nineteenth century and early twentieth century apothecary artifacts related to alchemy, elixirs, esoteric ...
Central. Multiple. 1920s and 30s gentleman's working ranch with collections of fine art, furnishings, historic and Native American artifacts. Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Cody. Park. Northwest. Multiple. Complex of museums about history, Native Americans, natural history, Western art and firearms.
Jim Baker (1818–1898), known as "Honest Jim Baker", [1] was a frontiersman, trapper, hunter, army scout, interpreter, and rancher. He was first a trapper and hunter. The decline of the fur trade in the early 1840s drove many trappers to quit, but Baker remained in the business until 1855. During that time he was a friend of Jim Bridger, Kit ...