...country's enterprising individuality and, consequently, to its democratic spirit: Up to our own day 1 1893] American History has been in a large degree the history...recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explains American development. (Turner 1994, 2) With fateful mythical overtones, Turner attributed...

...Westen. Diese fronner thesis wurde insbesondere von Frederick Jackson Turner vertreten, welcher schreibt: Up to our own day American history has been in a large...Great West. The existence of an area of free land, in continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development...

...outline which he and his students established in their lecture courses." Indeed, Turner's famous dictum, "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous...of American settlement westward, explain American development," remains a central part of most historical accounts of the West. 13 As Dorsey (chap, 1,...

...declaring the frontier closed. He then spent much of the reminder of his talk expounding on his thesis that "the existence of an area of free land, its continuous...of American settlement westward, explain American development." Turner hinted at this sense of endings and defeat toward the end of the essay when he...

...criticizing the traditional Turnerian approach to Western history since the 198os. Turner suggested that "American history has been in a large degree the history...the colonization of the Great West. The existence of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American...

...deliver his since-famous and controversial paper "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous...and the advance of American settlement westward," he asserted, "explain American development." Turner had been led to explore the fruitful topic of the...

...Roosevelt and Buffalo Bill, Turner saw westward movement as central to the history of the United States. "American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West," he wrote, and, even more forcefully, "The true point of view in the history of this nation is not the...

...until the end of the nineteenth century. "Up to our own day," Frederick Jackson Turner said in 1892, "American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West." He signaled the end of that process with his famous quotation from the 1890 census: "Up to and including...

...Roosevelt and Buffalo Bill, Turner saw westward movement as central to the history of the United States. "American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West," he wrote, and, even more forcefully, "The true point of view in the history of this nation is not the...

...speech, the Wild West show spectacularly dramatized Turner's "frontier thesis," which claimed that American "history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West" (Turner 1893). Like Turner's frontier thesis, Buffalo Bill's Wild West predicated the triumph of American...