By R. Wattenberg
Frontier dramas have been one of the preferred and profitable of early-twentieth-century Broadway style performs. The lengthy runs of up to date dramas not just point out the recognition of those performs but additionally let us know that those performs provided perspectives in regards to the frontier that unique audiences may well and did embody.
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Given Roosevelt’s unquestionable place within the eastern establishment,73 there is, in fact, a certain irony in his close association with the Wild West. The future president made his first extended trip to the West in 1884, when, after suffering personal tragedy (the deaths of his mother and wife in rapid succession) and political setbacks, he took refuge on his ranch in the Dakota Badlands. Here, Roosevelt was reinvigorated by the challenges of western life. Throwing himself fully into the cowboy’s life, Roosevelt represented what Earl Pomeroy has described as a Frontier Western Discourse 41 “heartily masculine approach to the West, in contrast to the predominantly feminine approach of the Raymond tourists,” but, as Pomeroy continues, “there was an adolescent quality to his maleness, a disposition to take the West not in stride but with a leap and a whoop”—that is, for Roosevelt the West was “a great playground,”74 not a place to live in, as it was for Turner.
Conversely, Garland praised a variety of regional writers who expressed western perspectives. Included among these were Bret Harte and Joaquin Miller—both of whose writings chronicled the struggles and joys of Northern California miners and were to exert significant influence on late-nineteenth-century frontier drama. Rather than offering secondhand imitations of past European artists, these authors, according to Garland, offered fresh individualistic expressions of true life; they were of and for the present.
For Roosevelt, then, to sustain the Anglo-Saxon male as the agent of historical progress, it was necessary to fend off civilized softness. In this spirit, he helped to create the Boone and Crockett Club in 1888. 81 Roosevelt’s faith in the vigorous Anglo-Saxon and in the West as a training ground for heroic action manifested itself in his own cowboy adventuring as well as in his approach to the organization of his Spanish-American War volunteer regiment, the Rough Riders. The regiment consisted of twelve troops: one was known mostly for its easterners, but members of the other eleven were drawn from the knockabout Wild West.