The Frontier in American History

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"The Significance of the Frontier in American History" is a seminal essay by the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner which advanced the so-called Frontier Thesis of American history. It was incorporated into Turner's 1921 book, The Frontier in American History, as Chapter I. — Excerpted from The Significance of the Frontier in American History on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.