{"id":3749,"date":"2011-09-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/blog\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2024-09-16T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T18:25:17","slug":"frontierland-walt-disney-and-the-american-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/blog\/patriotic-disney\/frontierland-walt-disney-and-the-american-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontierland, Walt Disney, and the American Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"FRONTIERLAND_A_MUSEUM_OF_DREAMS\"><\/span>FRONTIERLAND: A MUSEUM OF DREAMS<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>Here is a\u00a0Patriotic Disney Guest Post from Dave at <a href=\"http:\/\/yourfirstvisit.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\u201dnofollow\u201d noopener\">yourfirstvisit.net<\/a>. I really appreciate Dave&#8217;s taking the time to write it and his allowing me to debut it here. I hope you enjoy it!<\/em><\/p><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/blog\/patriotic-disney\/frontierland-walt-disney-and-the-american-identity\/#FRONTIERLAND_A_MUSEUM_OF_DREAMS\" >FRONTIERLAND: A MUSEUM OF DREAMS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/blog\/patriotic-disney\/frontierland-walt-disney-and-the-american-identity\/#THE_GENESIS_OF_FRONTIERLAND\" >THE GENESIS OF FRONTIERLAND<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/blog\/patriotic-disney\/frontierland-walt-disney-and-the-american-identity\/#THE_%E2%80%9COLD_WEST%E2%80%9D_BEGAN_IN_OHIO_KENTUCKY_AND_TENNESSEE\" >THE &#8220;OLD WEST&#8221; BEGAN IN OHIO, KENTUCKY, AND TENNESSEE<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>First, consider birth and death years of three great Americans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1734-1820: Daniel Boone<\/li>\n<li>1835-1910: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (that is, Mark Twain)<\/li>\n<li>1901-1966: Walt Disney<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With just one 15-year gap, these three lives <strong>stretch from before the French and Indian wars to the Space Age<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Boone and Mark Twain both lived <strong>and<\/strong> mythologized the American frontier experience; Walt Disney then re-mythologized the frontier into Frontierland, combining the myths of his boyhood with the pioneer and western imagery created by Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>As Margaret J. King <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.0022-3840.1981.00116.x\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\u201dnofollow\u201d noopener\">noted<\/a>, the result is a kind of \u201cmuseum\u201d for \u201cthe most nostalgic images and dreams of a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The introduction to Frontierland in \u00a0is worth quoting in detail:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cFrontierland celebrates the American pioneer spirit. It is the perfect embodiment of the wonder of the unknown and the quest to discover it\u2026Frontierland is often referred to as the most distinctively American statement in all the Magic Kingdom. It lives as a tribute to the pioneer spirit that drove Americans westward\u2026a subject that was as near and dear to Walt as Main Street, U.S.A. and equally connected to the fondest memories from his childhood.\u201d (51-52)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Patriotic-Frontierland.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3814\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3814 size-full\" title=\"Patriotic-Frontierland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Patriotic-Frontierland.jpg\" alt=\"Military Disney Tips Patriotic Frontierland\" width=\"424\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Patriotic-Frontierland.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Patriotic-Frontierland-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Patriotic-Frontierland-359x380.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"THE_GENESIS_OF_FRONTIERLAND\"><\/span>THE GENESIS OF FRONTIERLAND<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Frontierland at Walt Disney World is based on the original design of Frontierland at Disneyland.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of Disneyland grew as a series of concepts and sketches.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning was a <a href=\"http:\/\/yourfirstvisit.net\/2010\/12\/27\/trains-and-christmas-at-walt-disney-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\u201dnofollow\u201d noopener\">train<\/a>; next came Main Street; further developments of the idea included &#8220;an old farm, a western village, an Indian compound&#8230;[and] a riverboat.&#8221; (Gabler, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679757473\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=milidisntips-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399377&amp;creativeASIN=0679757473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\u201dnofollow\u201d noopener\">Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination<\/a>\u00a0Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination 481-485.)<\/p>\n<p>Elements of these early designs became Main Street and Frontierland; what many think the quintessential elements of Disneyland and Disney World&#8211;Fantasyland and Tomorrowland&#8211;didn&#8217;t emerge until later.<\/p>\n<p>This confusion of quintessence comes from our viewing the parks from the eyes of our own childhoods, and not Walt&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>In the early planning, Walt &#8220;described the park as providing a lesson in American heritage&#8221; displaying &#8220;the kind of bedrock values&#8230;that were especially salient with the onset of the Cold War. &#8216;There&#8217;s an American theme behind the whole park,&#8217; &#8221; he said. (Gabler, 499.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe initial conceptualization&#8211;the train, Main Street and Frontierland&#8211;recapitulated not only Walt&#8217;s childhood, but also the childhood of the nation. Gabler continues: &#8220;Disneyland was intended to re-create not only Walt Disney&#8217;s moment of possibility but also America&#8217;s, when the country, like Walt, had been both innocent and ambitious.&#8221; (500, 499.)<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"THE_%E2%80%9COLD_WEST%E2%80%9D_BEGAN_IN_OHIO_KENTUCKY_AND_TENNESSEE\"><\/span>THE &#8220;OLD WEST&#8221; BEGAN IN OHIO, KENTUCKY, AND TENNESSEE<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>At the time of the revolution, the &#8220;west&#8221; was not Arizona and California; it was the area west of the Appalachians and the Alleghenies.<\/p>\n<p>These mountains defined the limits of land useful for easterners to farm, and areas to their west&#8211;and sometimes the mountains themselves&#8211;were excluded to lawful settlement by treaties and laws.<\/p>\n<p>But settlement happened anyway, as bold, daring and ambitious people made their way first into the mountains, via Boone&#8217;s Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and via the National Road, and then headed to the great rivers beyond them, particularly the Ohio and Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>These pioneers found beyond the mountains the world&#8217;s largest swath of land perfect for farming, combined with the world&#8217;s most penetrating network of navigable rivers.<\/p>\n<p>This geography became destiny.<\/p>\n<p>Settlers could find farmland capable of feeding many more than themselves, ship their agricultural surplus on the navigable waterways, and spend the proceeds on developing their farms and their lives.<\/p>\n<p>None of this was easy. Getting to the west required difficult journeys and backwoods skills. Creating a homestead took years of backbreaking work. Both getting to and thriving in a new land often required surviving multiple bloody Indian attacks, from Indians who often had a treaty right, and always had a moral right, to oppose settlement.<\/p>\n<p>But it happened, and it built in the old west a people who valued individualism, self-reliance, mutual aid, wilderness skills, independence of action, patriotism, honor, martial skills, bravery, and perseverance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rivers-of-America.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3825\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3825 size-full\" title=\"Rivers-of-America\" src=\"https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rivers-of-America.jpg\" alt=\"Patriotic Disney Frontierland\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rivers-of-America.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rivers-of-America-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rivers-of-America-400x172.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These westerners did not value traditional eastern elites, people telling them what to do, or much in the way of federal power. While the battle over the role of the federal government pre-dated the rise of the west, westerners in particular resisted increases in federal power not only because they saw it as unconstitutional, but also because they resented the eastern elites using it to influence westerner&#8217;s lives and enrich easterner&#8217;s friends.<\/p>\n<p>These values, and especially their anti-elitism, were different than those of the old mercantile aristocracy of the northeast and those of the slaveholder aristocracy of the south, and the clash of values was put to crisis by the election of Andrew Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson won, and through Jacksonian democracy&#8217;s infusion of frontier values into the political structures created by the elites after the revolution, the beginnings of today&#8217;s American identity were forged.<\/p>\n<p>And this is what Frontierland celebrates: the bravery and spirit of adventure of the pioneers; the values they created; and the land that they shaped for their children to grow up in.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/blog\/patriotic-disney\/frontierland-walt-disney-and-the-american-identity-part-2\/\">Read Part 2 here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yourfirstvisit.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\u201dnofollow\u201d noopener\">yourfirstvisit.net<\/a>\u00a0is a website dedicated to helping first time visitors to Walt Disney World plan for and experience a fantastic Disney Vacation. Dave approaches WDW from the perspective of one who hasn&#8217;t visited before and gives all the pros and cons in relation to your first visit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your First Visit provides specific, targeted and precise answers to all the key questions you will face in designing the best possible first family visit to Walt Disney World.<\/strong>\u00a0Dave gives well thought out and researched advice on exactly what is important for Your First Visit!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the rest of our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarydisneytips.com\/blog\/patriotic-disney\/\">Patriotic Disney Posts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div id=\"milit-1821366158\" class=\"milit-after-content milit-entity-placement\"><br>\r\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/ncp\/payment\/4V6YWP2M2DNAU\">Send Steve a Tip<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRONTIERLAND: A MUSEUM OF DREAMS Here is a\u00a0Patriotic Disney Guest Post from Dave at yourfirstvisit.net. 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