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Frederick Jackson Turner: Closing Of The Frontier
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Frederick Jackson Turner's groundbreaking and controversial essay is based on his definitive thesis, "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development." ( Turner, p. 27)
An introduction by Harold Simonson ....
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....ame the Americans' manifest destiny.
Turner said that the frontier was a process in which men confronted, then mastered their raw environment. First there were hunters, then fur traders, then cattlemen, then ranchers, then industrial workers. Each one has his own frontier - his own new and distinct set of obstacles to conquer.
Stripped of his accumulations of comfort, the settler is forced to become self-sufficient. He becomes a new man through this ritual of transformation. This ritual of.... |
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