Collection of essays dealing with the signifiance of the concept of frontier in American history and its influence on it. Originally published in 1920.

This 1893 survey ranks among the most influential and important books about the impact of frontier life on a transplanted civilization. The author examines the frontier's role ...

The classical study of the ever-expanding American frontier, its influences on the men who settled and governed it, and its indelible stamp on the American character

The author argues that the availability of cheap land in the American West is the lens through which the history of the United States should be viewed.