Date of Award
5-2007
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
History: M.A.
Department
History
College
College of Liberal Arts
First Advisor
Jeffrey Mullins
Keywords and Subject Headings
Western expansion, American religious history
Abstract
This thesis examines the commonly portrayed myth that settlers of the American West lived in a non-religious society. The battle over missions between Baptist churches of the West and East highlights the deeply religious society that took root in the west and counters many modern historians oversight of this important part of American westward expansion.
Recommended Citation
Mead, David, "A Western Brand for Religion: The Baptist Anti-Mission Movement in the First American West, 1790-1840" (2007). Culminating Projects in History. 20.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/hist_etds/20
