Excerpt from The Significance of the Frontier in American HistoryFrom decade to decade distinct advances of the frontier occurred. By the census of 1820i the settled area included Ohio, southern Indiana and illinois, southeastern Missonrimnd about one-halt'et Louisiana. This settled area had surrounded indian areas. And the managementof these tribes became an objectai political concern. The frontier region of the time lay along the Great Lakes, where Astor's American Fur Company Operated in the lndiau traded and beyond tho Mississippi, where indian traders extended their activity even to the Rocky Mountains; Florida also furnished frontier conditions. The Misdssippi River region was the scene of typical frontier settlements.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Significance of the Frontier in American History (Classic Reprint)

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Frederick Jackson Turner

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The Significance of the Frontier in American History

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Franklin Classics Trade Press

This book is the final work of the great American historian who opened up a new period in interpreting the history of the United States by emphasizing the importance of the frontier in shaping American culture. Professor Turner wrote The United States 1830-1850 over a fifteen-year period before his death in 1932 and many consider it his major work. As Crane Brinton wrote in the Christian Science Monitor at the time of its publication, "This is the long-awaited master work of a man who...must certainly figure in any list of great American historians." Turner was interested in the two decades between 1830 and 1850 because he felt they constituted a distinct era in which regional geography played a significant role in the development of the country. "Whether we consider politics, inventions, industrial processes, social changes, journalism, or even literature and religion, the outstanding fact is that, in these years, the common man grew in power and confidence, the peculiarly American conditions and ideals gained strength and recognition. An optimistic and creative nation was forming and dealing with democracy and with things, in vast new spaces, in an original, practical, and determined way and on a grand scale." This, in Professor Turner's works, is the theme of United States 1830-1850.

The United States 1830-1850

W.W.Norton&Company

Frederick Jackson Turner is often considered to be the most influential American historian office century, and his views continue to shape the controversial field of Western American history. In this book, John Mack Faragher introduces and comments on ten of Turner's most significant essays, concluding with a comment on the recent debate over Turner's legacy and his effect on Americans' understanding of their national character.

Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History and Other Essays

Henry Holt Company

Widely recognized as a classic of American historiography, The Frontier in American History examines the importance of the unsettled West as both idea and physical reality. Turner's essays explore the changing frontier as it moved progressively westward and discuss the contributions of the pioneers in each frontier area to the development of modern American democracy.

The Frontier in American History

University of Arizona Press

Excerpt from Rise of the New West 1819-1829In a way the west is simply a broader east, for up to the end of the period covered by this volume most of the grown men and women in the west came across the mountains to found new homes the new-englander in western New York; the Penn sylvanian diverging westward and southwestward; the Virginian in Kentucky; the north-carolinian in Tennessee and Missouri and, along with the South Carolinian and Georgian, in the new southwestern states; while north of the Ohio River the principal element up to 1830 was southern.To describe such a movement and its effects, Pro fessor Turner has the advantage to be a descendant Of new-yorkers, of New England stock, but native to the west, and living alongside the most complete collection of materials upon the west which has ever been brought together - the Library of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. His point of View is that the west and east were always interdependent, and that the rising power of the western states in na tional affairs was a wholesome and natural outcome of forces at work for half a century. The trans formation of the west from a rude and boisterous frontier to a group of states, soon rivalling their parent communities in population and wealth, was not unlike the process through which Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia passed as colonies, except that the inland people accepted Ideals and standards originally English, but worked out and put into shape by their colonist fathers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Rise of the New West 1819-1829 (Classic Reprint)

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