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The Frontier in American History

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The Frontier in American History (1921)
by Frederick Jackson Turner

From the "Transcriber's notes" from Project Gutenberg:

A few typographical errors have been corrected. . . the original has the words "co[=m]ander" and "su[=m]e". [=m] represents the letter m with a macron. It is a shortcut indicating that the word should have two m's in succession. . . Ellipses are represented as in the original. . . Spelling and punctuation errors in quoted material have been left as in the original.

For a full list of typographical errors, all of which are minor, see Gutenberg version of this text.

"The Significance of the Frontier in American History" is a seminal essay by the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner which advanced the so-called Frontier Thesis of American history. It was incorporated into Turner's 1921 book, The Frontier in American History, as Chapter I.
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THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY

BY

FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER


NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1921

Copyright, 1920
By
FREDERICK J. TURNER


TO
CAROLINE M. TURNER
MY WIFE


CHAPTER

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