Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history. — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development. — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power. — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
