...marks the closing of a great historic moment," Turner said. The history of America "has been . . . the history of the colonization of the Great West....and the advance of American settlement westward," he claimed, "explain American development." Each new wave of the frontier had provided "a new field...

...Exhibition in Chicago, Turner made this famous declaration: "Up to our own day American history has been in large degree the history of the colonization of the...land, its continuous recession, and the advance of settlement westward, explain American development." But now, Turner concluded, "four centuries from...

...temporal consciousness. The first paragraph ends with an essential organizing theme of the thesis: "The existence of an area of free land, its continuous...advance of American settlement westward explain American development." In the following paragraph Turner seems to have included as many evolutionary terms and...

...American society. In one of the boldest sentences of his pathbreaking essay, Turner exclaimed that "the existence of an area of free land, its continuous...of American settlement westward, explain American development." But, he added pessimistically, this frontier sweep across the continent had now come...

...Turner's wellknown frontier thesis. At Chicago's 1893 Columbia Exposition, Turner famously proclaimed that "the existence of an area of free land, its continuous...advance of American settlement westward explain American development."28 But while the frontier's wealth of "free land" was, for Turner, responsible for nurturing...

...ideals of masculine self-reliance. Turner's thesis, which opens with the 1890 census report, argues, "Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of colonization of the Great West"; but the census announcement marked "the closing of a great historic...

...that "the western advance " was "incidental to the slavery struggle."58 Instead, Turner argued that "American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West."59 The "germ theory" was a version of Anglo-Saxonism promoted by institutional historians such...

...und indianischem Widerstand, der das Wesen amerikanischer Geschichte und damit der Nation ausmache: Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and...

...Turner predicated the development of the American national character on the existence of the frontier - "an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward."13 The mobile home, the chain store, the fast-food stand, and the commercial strip turn placelessness...

...observation in the 1890 US census that the American frontier had for the first time closed. He noted, "Up to our own day American history has been in a...advance of American settlement westward explain American development." He insisted that the frontier made Americans American, that it gave the nation its democratic...