...racialism or British constitutionalism — to explain America. America's history itself was sufficient. "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous...advance of American settlement westward explain American development."4 Turner s interpretation was as upbeat as Chicago's Columbian Exposition itself.5 Hard...

...the beginning: "This brief official statement marks the closing of the great historic movement . . . the existence of an area of free land, its continuous...of American settlement westward, explain American development" (1). At the end of his lengthy address, he boldly proclaims: "the frontier has gone"(38)....

...settlers on the North American continent within the broader narrative of US history by arguing that the "existence of an area of free land, its continuous...of American settlement westward, explain American development."6 Kerwin Lee Klein points out that Turner implied that the process of settling the frontier...

...Harry T. Peters Collection Bill Cody's Wild West Show. With bold rhetorical flourishes, Turner argued, "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous...of American settlement westward, explain American development."' Borrowing a model of social growth and change from Charles Darwin's theory of evolutionary...

...the landscape, as Frederick Jackson Turner so famously suggested? Was Turner correct when he said, "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous...of American settlement westward, explain American development?"' Does liberty spring up on the frontiers of civilization? Does it arise spontaneously...

...American History," Turner asserted that he could explain all of American development up to the 1890s by the "existence of an area of free land, its continuous...and the advance of American settlement westward." He claimed that the frontier had shaped •HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, JR. key features of the American...

...of a nation both democratic and enterprising . . . replete with accessible images" to the frontier, "an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement" that, for Frederick Jackson Turner, "explain [ed] American development."26 What indeed was the "Great...

...turn-of-thecentury American historian, Frederick Jackson Turner. In his famous essay of 1893, he argued that "an area of free land, its continuous recession," and the advance of settlement westward explain American life. The US had evolved in a unique fashion because its institutions...

...the census reports." This brief official statement marks the closing of a great historic movement. Up to our own day American history has been in a large...of American settlement westward, explain American development. Behind institutions, behind constitutional forms and modifications, lie the vital forces...

...the census reports." This brief official statement marks the closing of a great historic movement. Up to our own day American history has been in a large...of American settlement westward, explain American development. Behind institutions, behind constitutional forms and modifications, lie the vital forces...