2014 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. The "Frontier Thesis" or "Turner Thesis," is the argument advanced by historian Frederick

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

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

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