157 Notes x Introduction 1. Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at the Annual Convention of the Texas State Bar Association in San Antonio,” July 6, 1984, in The American Presidency Project, ed. Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/. 2. Mario Cuomo, “1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote,” July 16, 1984, in American Rhetoric, ed. Michael E. Eidenmuller , http://www.americanrhetoric .com/. 3. Reagan won the election, but Republicans acknowledged that this speech by Cuomo was especially well designed to appeal to Americans and forced the Reagan campaign to do some rhetorical repair work that they otherwise would not have been forced to do. See David Henry, “The Rhetorical Dynamics of Mario Cuomo’s 1984 Keynote Address,” in Contemporary American Public Discourse, 3rd ed., ed. Halford Ross Ryan (Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1992), 303–4, 314. 4. E. G. Adelberger et al. “Torsion Balance Experiments: A Low-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics,” August 19, 2008, http://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwash/ publications/pdf/lowfrontier2.pdf; Edward D. Lazowska and David A. Patterson , “An Endless Frontier Postponed,” Science 308, no. 5723 (2005): 757, 158 Notes http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/Science.pdf; Cary Alan Johnson, “The Final Frontier: Why LGBT Rights Are a Game Changer and Will Liberate Us All,” University of Washington Department of Global Health, October 25, 2011, http:// globalhealth.washington.edu/media/gallery/5274. 5. Patricia Nelson Limerick, “The Adventures of the Frontier in the Twentieth Century ,” in The Frontier in American Culture, ed. James R. Grossman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 67, 94. 6. Kenneth Burke, Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 50. 7. Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992), 2. 8. Tarla Rai Peterson, “Jefferson’s Yeoman Farmer as Frontier Hero: A Self Defeating Mythic Structure,” Agriculture and Human Values 7, no. 1 (1990): 9. 9. Limerick, “Adventures,” 68. 10. Mary E. Stuckey, “The Donner Party and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 14, no. 2 (2011): 232; Hillary A. Jones, “‘Them as Feel the Need to Be Free’: Reworking the Frontier Myth,” Southern Communication Journal 76, no. 3 (2011): 231. 11. Janice Hocker Rushing, “Mythic Evolution of ‘The New Frontier’ in Mass Mediated Rhetoric,” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 3, no. 3 (1986): 265. 12. Richard Slotkin, Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860 (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973), 5. See also Richard Slotkin, The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890 (New York: Atheneum, 1985); and Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation. 13. Slotkin, Regeneration through Violence, 4. 14. Leroy G. Dorsey, “The Myth of War and Peace in Presidential Discourse: John Kennedy’s ‘New Frontier’ Myth and the Peace Corps,” Southern Communication Journal 62, no. 1 (1996): 42–55. 15. Ronald H. Carpenter, “America’s Tragic Metaphor: Our Twentieth-Century Combatants as Frontiersmen,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 76, no. 1 (1990): 1–22. 16. Mark West and Chris Carey, “(Re)Enacting Frontier Justice: The Bush Administration ’s Tactical Narration of the Old West Fantasy after September 11,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 92, no. 4 (2006): 379–412. 17. Rushing, “Mythic Evolution,” 266, 294. See also Janice Hocker Rushing, “Ronald Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ Address: Mythic Containment of Technical Reasoning,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 72, no. 4 (1986): 415–33; Janice Hocker Rushing, “Evolution of ‘The New Frontier’ in Alien and Aliens: Patriarchal Co-optation of the Feminine Archetype,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 75, no. 1 (1989): 1–25. 18. Ray A. Williamson, “Outer Space as Frontier: Lessons for Today,” Western Folklore 46, no. 4 (1987): 260. See also Linda T. Krug, Presidential Perspectives on [3.145.23.123] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 12:03 GMT) Notes 159 Space Exploration: Guiding Metaphors from Eisenhower to Bush (New York: Praeger , 1991): 68–74, 82–86, 94; James L. Kauffman, Selling Outer Space: Kennedy, the Media, and Funding for Project Apollo, 1961–1963 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994): 132–34; John W. Jordan, “Kennedy’s Romantic Moon and Its Rhetorical Legacy for Space Exploration,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 6, no. 2 (2003): 209–32; Catherine Gouge, “The Great Storefront of American Nationalism : Narratives of Mars and the Outerspatial Frontier,” Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900–present) 1, no. 2 (2002). 19. James P. McDaniel, “Figures for New Frontiers, From Davy Crockett to Cyberspace Gurus,” Quarterly Journal...