...of the Eleventh Census of the United States that by 1890 'the unsettled area [of the United States] has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement...that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line*. The reader of these words need not become prematurely alarmed - it is not the purpose of this paper...

...FBEE WOOL AND THE END OF THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT, 1890-1907' IN 1890 the geographer of the Census wrote: "At present the unsettled area has been so broken...that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line." 2 The steadily advancing line of settlers which had slowly pushed forward over the Alleghany Mountains...

...American History," I took for my text the following announcement of the Superintendent of the Census of 1890: Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier...isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly he said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, the westward movement, etc., it cannot...

...appear these significant words: " Up_^and_inc_hiding 1880 the country ^ad_fl_ftoptiei oi_settleraentt but at present the unsettled area has been so broken...bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said _to be a frontier line. Tn the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore,...

...as 1890 the Superintendent of the Census discovered that " the unsettled area has been so broken up by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line." Now for a period of more than thirty years the safety-valve of free lands in the West has been practically...

...the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line." This was a statement of profound economic significance. With the disappearance of the frontier the...

...,3 Calif. 219 (1853). In/rs, p. 8. ' The Lumber Industry, 61st Conj., 3d sea*., S. Doc. 818, p. 3. 1 "The unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated...that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line," Compendium of the Eleventh Census (1890), pt. I, p. xlviii. 10 Conservation, said Gifford Pinchot,...

...after the end of hostilities of Civil War that the director of the US Census states that the country's "unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated...that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line." Much has been written in criticism of the operations under and influence of the Homestead Act as well...

...pamphlet contained the words, "Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement. . .at present the unsettled area has been so broken...that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. . . . [Figures concerning the frontier] can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports."...

...had, in spite of the Indian menace. And by 1890 the Census gave up trying to draw a "frontier, for "the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated...that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line," --«"a passage, I think, which Frederick J. Turner misread as lie launched from it into his "Frontier...