Book/Printed Material The frontier in American history
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- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
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- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 7 of The frontier in American history THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY BY FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1920
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 10 of The frontier in American history Copyright, 1920 BY FREDERICK J. TURNER
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 11 of The frontier in American history PREFACE In republishing these essays in collected form, it has seemed best to issue them as they were originally printed, with the exception of a few slight corrections of slips in the...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 12 of The frontier in American history PREFACE ing resemblances and connections between the New World and the Old. But the larger part of what has been distinctive and valuable in America s contribution to the history of the...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 13 of The frontier in American history CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I The Significance of the Frontier in American History 1 11 The First Official Frontier of the Massa- chusetts Bay 39 III The Old West 67 IV The Middle...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 14 of The frontier in American history
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 15 of The frontier in American history The Significance of the Frontier in American History In a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear these significant words: Up to and including 1880 the country had...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 16 of The frontier in American history 2 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY Behind institutions, behind constitutional forms and modi- fications, lie the vital forces that call these organs into life and shape them to meet changing conditions. The...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 17 of The frontier in American history THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER 3 the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominat- ing American character. The true point of view in the history of this nation is not the...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 18 of The frontier in American history 4 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY most rapid and effective Americanization. The wilderness masters the colonist. It finds him a European in dress, indus- tries, tools, modes of travel, and thought. It...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 19 of The frontier in American history THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER 5 the first half of the eighteenth century another advance occurred. Traders followed the Delaware and Shawnese Indians to the Ohio as early as the end of...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 20 of The frontier in American history 6 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY and up the Mohawk about Schenectady, eastern and southern Pennsylvania, Virginia well across the Shenandoah Valley, and the Carolinas and eastern Georgia.^ Beyond this region of...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 21 of The frontier in American history THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER 7 where Indian traders extended their activity even to the Rocky Mountains; Florida also furnished frontier conditions. The Mississippi River region was the scene of typical frontier...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 22 of The frontier in American history 8 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY In the middle of this century the line indicated by the present eastern boundary of Indian Territory, Nebraska, and Kansas marked the frontier of the Indian...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 23 of The frontier in American history THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER of frontier life. Railroads, fostered by land grants, sent an increasing tide of immigrants into the Far West. The United States Army fought a series of Indian...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 24 of The frontier in American history 10 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY and educational activity. And the settlement of these and similar questions for one frontier served as a guide for the next. The American student needs not...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 25 of The frontier in American history THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER 11 more adequate conception of American development and char- asteristics, but invaluable additions would be made to the his- tory of society. Loria,^- the Italian economist, has...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 26 of The frontier in American history 12 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY 11 State with varied agricultural interests. But earlier it was given over to almost exclusive grain-raising, like North Dakota at the present time. Each of these...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 27 of The frontier in American history THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER 13 trafficked for furs. The Plymouth pilgrims settled in Indian cornfields, and their first return cargo was of beaver and lum- ber. The records of the various...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 28 of The frontier in American history 14 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY by its trading frontier; English colonization by its farming frontier. There was an antagonism between the two frontiers as between the two nations. Said Duquesne to...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 29 of The frontier in American history THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER 15 derness has been interpenetrated by lines of civilization grow- ing ever more numerous. It is like the steady growth of a complex nervous system for the...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 30 of The frontier in American history li THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY It would not be possible in the limits of this paper to trace the other frontiers across the continent. Travelers of the eighteenth century found the...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 31 of The frontier in American history THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER 17 nection mention should also be made of the government mili- tary and exploring expeditions in determining the lines of set- tlement. But all the more important...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 32 of The frontier in American history 18 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY only way in which the pioneer learned what was going on in the East. But when discovery was made of the salt springs of the Kanawha,...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 33 of The frontier in American history THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER 19 Great Valley road to that stream. Learning from a trader of the game and rich pastures of Kentucky, he pioneered the way for the farmers to...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 34 of The frontier in American history 29 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY owner of the soil. He is the occupant for the time being, pays no rent, and feels as independent as the lord of the manor. With...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 35 of The frontier in American history THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER 21 merits, luxuries, elegancies, frivolities, and fash- ions are in vogue. Thus wave after wave is roll- ing westward; the real Eldorado is still farther on. A...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 36 of The frontier in American history 22 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY and easily tilled prairie lands compelled the farmer either to go west and continue the exliaustion of the soil on a new frontier, or to adopt...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 37 of The frontier in American history THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER 23 English stock. In the crucible of the frontier the immigrants were Americanized, liberated, and fused into a mixed race, English in neither nationality nor characteristics. The...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 38 of The frontier in American history 24 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY Before long the frontier created a demand for merchants. As it retreated from the coast it became less and less possible for England to. bring her...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 39 of The frontier in American history THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER 25 grave constitutional questions were discussed. Sectional groupings appear in the votes, profoundly significant for the historian. Loose construction increased as the nation marched westward*^ But the...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Image 40 of The frontier in American history 26 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY United States in dealing with its lands is in sharp contrast with the European system of scientific administration. Efforts to make this domain a source of...
- Contributor: Turner, Frederick Jackson - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920