Nineteenth-century Americans imagined the "Wild West" as all of the following EXCEPT: a. a distant, timeless place, uncorrupted by civilization.
b. isolated farms, where men and women carved out difficult lives on the Great Plains.
c. a spectacle of adventure as portrayed by vaudeville shows featuring famous battle reenactments and real Indian warriors.
d. a violent frontier recounted through dime novels and prolific newspaper stories.
e. an uncivilized space that ended at the Rocky mountains.

a. a distant, timeless place, uncorrupted by civilization.

Explanation:

Nineteenth-century Americans did not imagine the "Wild West" as a distant, timeless place, uncorrupted by civilization.

In contrast, it was viewed by them as a place of gunslingers, adventures, cowboys and more where things went almost unchecked.

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i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.