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The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner is a seminal work that profoundly shaped the understanding of the American character and its develo

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

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