The Importance of Frontierism

Clarence Bardsai was one of these frontiers he was a biologist and a hunter in 1911. He was hired by the United States Department of Agriculture to go to the area of Montana and the Rocky Mountains which would have been the wild frontier undiscovered American land. The people who lived there were the Salish indigenous American people otherwise known as the flathead Indians but they call themselves the Salish people. They were being pushed out of the Rocky Mountains by Europeans in particular Europeans who were there for logging. Something strange happened when Europeans started to exploit the logging industry in the Rocky Mountains they developed an extreme illness that became known as Rocky Mountains spotted fever.