This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nation’s expansion into the Great West was directly linked to

The Frontier in American History is a collection of works related to the history of American colonization of Wild West. Turner expresses his views on how the id

Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to a

In 1893 a young Frederick Jackson Turner stood before the American Historical Association and delivered his famous frontier thesis. To a less than enthusiastic

Despite a half century of attempts by social scientists to compare frontiers around the world, the study of these regions is still closely associated with the n