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Title: The Frontier in American History

Author: Frederick Jackson Turner

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THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY

by

FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER

[Illustration]

New York
Henry Holt and Company
1921

Copyright, 1920
by
Frederick J. Turner

TO
CAROLINE M. TURNER
MY WIFE

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 text and with the omission of
occasional duplication of language in the different essays. A
considerable part of whatever value they may possess arises from the
fact that they are commentaries in different periods on the central
theme of the influence of the frontier in American history. Consequently
they may have some historical significance as contemporaneous attempts
of a student of American history, at successive transitions in our
development during th