Considering frontiers and empires: George Kennan's Siberia and the U.S. west

This article examines the late nineteenth-century writings of American explorer, travel writer, and journalist George Kennan on Siberian indigenous peoples, the regions incarceration and exile system, and his early twentiethcentury commentary on federal Indian policy. Kennan's work highlights the possibilities for comparative analysis of the U.S. empire in the Far West and Russia's far eastern empire.