The First Frontier: Life in Colonial America

The First Frontier: Life in Colonial America John C. Miller Lanham: University Press of America, 1966. In his historical novel The First Frontier: Life in Colonial America John C. Miller tells of the taming of a harsh frontier. He tackles such topics as Puritans versus Quakers, southern plantation versus cities, and everyday life in the colonial period. Most people do not realize how similar Quakers and Puritans really are. Both came to the new world to …

…their husbands. Of all the topics in history, this one appealed to me because I have often mentally put myself in the colonists’ shoes and imagined what it would be like for me to have to build a colony literally from the ground up. This historical work has enlightened me in the real hardships faced by these charter Americans without whom we would not have the great nation we are proud to call our own.