What is the popular view of Western settlement? How are traders, surveyors, and explorers… 1 answer below »

Each question must be at least 200 words.Please include intext citations (In the Turbian Format)
1.What is the popular view of Western settlement? How are traders, surveyors, and explorers portrayed in this view? How does it compare to the academic view? Does the settlement of Alta California (see Chapter 9) fit within the pop culture narrative?
2.In their article, Otterstrom and Earle take an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the American settlement of the West. What do we learn by mapping population density? What do they conclude about Turner and the closure of the frontier?