Why was the western frontier an important area for the patriots to control

The western frontier was important for patriots to control, because as the new world became to take shape with ideologies, laws and technology. Our decendants were becoming a part of a new world that would later take the shape of the United States. It was important that the early empire came and took claim to the western expansion of our nation, because there was competition for discovering and colonizing new land. Some Spanish, Some French...but without pilgrims and English settlers there’s no telling what laungsuge we’d be speaking or who’s diplomacy and constitution we’d be following.