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The "Army on the Frontier" is a term applied to the activities of the United States Army stationed near the frontier settlements from the beginning of national existence until about 1890, the end of the settlers' frontier.
Along the frontier, the zone of contact between the settled portions of the country and the uncharted territory inhabited by the various American Indian nations, the army was first and foremost an agent of expansion. One of the army's primary duties was exploration.
“The frontier is the outer edge of the wave,” writes historian Frederick Jackson Turner, “the meeting-point between savagery and civilization…the line of most rapid and effective Americanization.” It was the U.S. Army’s role to facilitate this Americanization and expansion into the western frontier.
The U.S. Army after 1850 established a series of military posts across the frontier, designed to stop warfare among Native tribes or between Natives and settlers. Throughout the 19th century, Army officers typically built their careers in peacekeeper roles moving from fort to fort until retirement.
The museum's main gallery highlights the efforts of the Frontier Army in exploration, expansion and protection of the Trans-Mississippi West from the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804)...
The Armed Forces in the British West African colonies were under the control of the individual colonies following the First World War. The regiments of the four colonies were all under the umbrella of the Royal West African Frontier Force (R.W.A.F.F.).
Aug 1, 2010 · William A. Dobak; Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870–1890, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 3, 1 August 2010, Pa
