University of Montana Western - Chinook Yearbook (Dillon, MT)

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hi the 1890’s, American civilization, with its institutions and stratification, found its last boundary, and the spirit of the Western Horizon seemed to pass out of American life. Those were the days when the cry Go West, young man, go West” was drowned in the holloiv echo The West is dead! 13)

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in ■ i mi the WESTERN HORIZONS of an earlier centuAy, we, the Chinook staff of 1951, derive our thenle. 'Looking backward, we see that western horizons have been an inspiration to generations of strep g spirited Americans who have had the courage and the strength to break with the past and push ahead into unexplored regions. Hazarding the protests of nature and the vicissitudes of social isolation. they pushed incessantly forward, for the unscanned West held promise of new hope, new freedom, and a new lease on life. $3 ££05 .1

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But the West is not dead. For the West is only a symbol of man s primordial search for something greater. The Western Horizons of 1951 overhang the unexplored regions in science, art, and speculative thought. They lead to broader plains of human understanding and greater heights in social amenity. They, too, hold promise of new hope, new freedom, and a new lease on life.