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	WAM Chapter 1
		The thesis states that "both the Manitoba insurrection and the Saskatchewan rebellion were the manifestation in western Canada of the problem of the frontier, namely, the clash between primitive and civilized peoples".
		as an assumption underpinning the main theme of the frontier thesis.
		The argument against the frontier theory is quite simple and perhaps its very simplicity has served to be the major factor in its being overlooked by historians.
	www.othermetis.net /WAM/WAMch1.html (2753 words)

	Frontier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States, the frontier was the term applied to the zone of unsettled land outside the region of existing settlements of Americans.
		The idea that the frontier provided the core defining quality of the United States was elaborated by the great historian Frederick Jackson Turner, who built his Frontier Thesis in 1893 around this notion.
		In the European Union, the frontier is a term used to describe the region beyond the expanding borders of the European Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frontier (2131 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Frederick Jackson Turner
		This development, in Turner's description of the frontier, "begins with the Indian and the hunter; it goes on with the disintegration of savagery by the entrance of the trader...
		For Turner, the deeper significance of the frontier lay in the effects of this social recapitulation on the American character.
		Some have long disputed the very idea of a frontier of "free land." Turner's formulation ignored the presence of the numerous Indian peoples whose subjugation was required by the nation's westward march, and assumed that the bulk of newly acquired lands were actually democratically distributed to yeomen pioneers.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/s_z/turner.htm (1225 words)

	Frontier Thesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Frontier Thesis or Turner Thesis is the conclusion of Frederick Jackson Turner that the wellsprings of American exceptionalism and vitality have always been the American frontier, the region between urbanized, civilized society and the untamed wilderness.
		In fact, today Kansas has more "frontier" counties (using Turner's definition) than it did in 1900, and 35 of the 53 counties in North Dakota qualify as "frontier".
		The Canadian political thinker Charles Blattberg has developed an interesting contrast between the American frontier process as described by Turner and the notion that, in Canada, settlement is best described as having involved the moving of a "border" from east to west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frontier_Thesis (767 words)

	American Historical Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The fall line marked the frontier of the seventeenth century; the Alleghanies that of the eighteenth; the Mississippi that of the first quarter of the nineteenth; the Missouri that of the middle of this century (omitting the California movement); and the belt of the Rocky Mountains and the arid tract, the present frontier.
		The first frontier had to meet its Indian question, its question of the disposition of the public domain, of the means of intercourse with older settlements, of the extension of political organization, of religious and educational activity.
		The exploitation of the beasts took hunter and trader to the west, the exploitation of the grasses took the rancher west, and the exploitation of the virgin soil of the river valleys and prairies attracted the farmer.
	www.historians.org /pubs/archives/Turnerthesis.htm (8864 words)

	Rugged Individualism - The World and I Magazine
		Turner's frontier hypothesis was a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of the age.
		He saw the frontier as breeding nationalism, for instance, not only because frontiersmen felt a need for services such as transportation and protection from the Indians but also because the frontier and frontiersmen were ever on the move, and "nothing works for nationalism like intercourse within the nation.
		To appraise the frontier theses is a threefold undertaking: as an account of American history to the end of the nineteenth century, as description of American character, and as a prophesy of what was to come after "the pioneering era drew to a close.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1990/may/mt7.cfm (3970 words)

	Turner Thesis
		The fallÊline marked the frontier of the seventeenth century; the Alleghenies that ofÊthe eighteenth; the Mississippi that of the first quart er of the nineteenth;Êthe Missouri that of the middle of this century (omitting the CaliforniaÊmovement); and the belt of the Rocky Mountains and the arid tract, theÊpresent frontier.
		The Atlantic frontier was compounded of fisherman, fur-trader, miner,Êcattle-raiser, and farmer.
		The frontier States that came into the Union in the first quarter of aÊcentury of its existence came in with democratic suffrage provisions, andÊhad reactive effects of the highest importance upon the older States whoseÊpeoples were being attracted th ere.
	people.ku.edu /~kconrad/turner.html (8073 words)

	FJ Turner, Frontier Thesis
		In short, at the frontier the environment is at first too strong for the man. He must accept the conditions which it furnishes or perish, and so he fits himself into the Indian clearings and follows the Indian trails.
		The works of travelers along each frontier from colonial days onward describe certain common traits, and these traits have, while softening down, still persisted as survivals in the place of their origin, even when a higher social organization succeeded.
		While the individualism of the frontier, so prominent in the earliest days of the Western advance, has been preserved as an ideal, more and more these individuals struggling each with the other, dealing with vaster and vaster areas, with larger and larger problems, have found it necessary to combine under the leadership of the strongest.
	www-personal.umd.umich.edu /~ppennock/doc-FJTurner.htm (1915 words)

	Frontier West
		In a thoughtful introduction to American Frontier and Western Issues, Roger Nichols confronts the malaise of western history, and argues with conviction that frontier history is neither headed toward extinction, nor in a state of permanent decline.
		What western and frontier history needs for true rejuvenation is a thoroughgoing debate over intellectual premises on the order of the exciting exchanges that took place in the 1970s over slavery.
		Finally, with a close relationship existing between Marxist economic beliefs and the frontier thesis, the movement by socialist and communist countries away from Marxism bodes ill for the longevity of the frontier process.
	digital.library.arizona.edu /jsw/2904/thompson.html (4045 words)

	The Frontier In American History: Chapter I
		In this advance, the frontier is the outer edge of the wave-- the meeting point between savagery and civilization.
		The Atlantic frontier was compounded of fisherman, fur trader, miner, cattle-raiser, and farmer.
		The West in the War of 1812 repeated the phenomenon on the frontier of that day, while the speculation and wild-cat banking of the period of the crisis of 1837 occurred on the new frontier belt of the next tier of States.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/TURNER/chapter1.html (9635 words)

	Untitled Document
		Wilder was aware of Turner's thesis when the books were written; very likely her endorsement of the frontier thesis was not accidental.
		Wilder's interpretation of the frontier is created between herself and her daughter by memories, their awareness of Turner's frontier thesis, and also their politics (104).
		The effect of the freedom of the frontier pushing people in different directions is visible in Caroline and Charles' (Laura's parents) relationship, and the difference with how they see their family's future; Pa wants to move farther west, while Caroline wants to be settled near a church and school.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~aaw6/page10.html (2278 words)

	Frederick Jackson Turner: An Examination of His "Frontier Thesis" and American History
		In Turner's thesis, the American frontier is portrayed as the line between settled and Indian lands, which runs roughly north to south and which continually recedes westward.
		While it is true that one frontier line ran from the north to the south, the New England colonies had a northern frontier running from east to west.
		It was across this frontier that French troops and their Indian allies put pressure on colonial Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, which ended only with the defeat of France in the Seven Years War.
	www.bluecorncomics.com /markwibe.htm (1597 words)

	History:Historians At Work: Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional?
		Born on November 14, 1861, in Portage, Wisconsin, a frontier town of nearly four thousand, Turner grew up in a community awash in the fresh memories of exploration and settlementÖ.For him, the frontier experience meant the physical movement of European settlers across the American continent.
		Some historians emphasized what they considered the weaknesses of the frontier school in acknowledging the large contributions of racial and ethnic minorities to the history of the frontier and the WestÖ.No less pointed were the attacks launched against frontier historians for failing to deal with the important questions of gender and class.
		Although most did not explicitly address the subject of exceptionalism, they implied that a perspective as shaky as they now considered the frontier thesis could not be the basis for a tenable interpretation of American culture.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /history/series/hw/frontier/frontier.htm (783 words)

	The Turner Thesis: An Annotated Bibliography for Students
		Also, the frontier has become a mythical time and place, to the point where it is difficult to distinguish history from myth.
		He was one of the first historians to go beyond the Anglo frontier studied by Turner, and specialized in the "Borderlands" region (the areas of Spanish occupation, where another frontier movement had already occurred).
		The American frontier heritage is distinct from the frontier heritage of Mexico which unites with the U.S. in the borderlands region.
	www.d.umn.edu /cla/faculty/tbacig/urop/bibtrner.html (3218 words)

	From Old West To New West: From Turner to Limerick
		In Turner’s nineteenth century west, a frontier was typically either a region at the edge of a settled area or the border of an unsettled area for which there are plans of exploration and research.
		The frontier, in short, was a process that simply stopped when it was claimed in the 1890 Census that every two square miles of the West had at least two people present.
		Furthermore, the frontier was clearly a process because it involved the federal government creating figurative and real lines on the map in order to help manage the land.
	workingpapers.org /students/limerick_legacy_of_conquest.htm (1256 words)

	Teacher Resources - Collection - Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912
		In 1890, the commissioner of the Bureau of the Census stated that a frontier line of settlement (defined as having fewer than 2 persons per square mile) could no longer be found and would henceforth not be used in Census reports.
		In the past two or three decades, however, Turner's frontier thesis has undergone thoroughgoing challenge and revision by such historians as Patricia Nelson Limerick, Donald Wooster, and Richard White.
		Many resources on Turner and the frontier thesis are available online; two good starting points for students include a collection of his essays and a brief biography written to accompany a PBS series on the west.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/collections/settlement/thinking4.html (617 words)

	The Turner Theses
		The central thesis about the frontier coined by Frederick Jackson Turner, commonly called the frontier thesis, has to do with the origins of the American national character.
		The frontier thesis is the assertion that the American character, including such traits as democracy and materialism, derived from the frontier experience.
		The safety valve thesis is the assertion that the frontier, as a place of opportunity and escape, defused social discontent in America.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /instruct/isern/103/turner.htm (371 words)

	Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier Thesis (1893)
		Frederick Jackson Turner's essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," written in 1893, is perhaps the most influential essay ever read at the American Historical Association's annual conference.
		Ray Allen Billington, The Genesis of the Frontier Thesis: A Study in Historical Creativity (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1971).
		Prepared by Professor Catherine Lavender for Honors 502 (American Frontiers and Borderlands), Department of History, The College of Staten Island of The City University of New York.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/frontier.html (601 words)

	frontier thesis - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		...Frederick Jackson Turners frontier thesis might be broadly applied to...semisystematic, attempt to compare the frontier thesis in its application to Australia...light upon the validity of the frontier thesis, and even finally to hazard...
		Frontier And Pioneer Life--Rome, Frontier Thesis, Rome--Army, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D
		The 'Plains of Promise' Revisited: A Reassessment of the Frontier in North Western Queensland
	www.questia.com /search/frontier-thesis (1639 words)

	Thesis by Topics
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	Amazon.com: The Frontier in American History: Books: Frederick Jackson Turner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The idea that the frontier is crucial to the development of American civilization has been one of the major themes of American history.
		I remember however that his idea that it is precisely the settled people of the East, the veterans who head out for the West gave me the idea of Americans as a people in constant motion away from their old and hopefully toward their new and better self.
		There are numerous ramifications of the thesis, including the "force majeur" (might=right) attitude of the settlers towards the Native Americans - with its ominous overtones on the eve of war in the Middle-East.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486291677?v=glance (1541 words)

	Senior Seminar in History
		While others returned to the core of the thesis and developed a position of political democracy defending it by an examination of the psychological impact on the settlers living in these frontier communities.
		Turner in the formulation of his thought-provoking thesis on the significance of the frontier McDermott feels he couldn’t have been blind to the fact that artists have played a point to history.
		She clearly defines that the frontier is not closed as per the census back a century ago it is just reinventing itself in different ways.
	www.lazystudents.com /hyperpapers/Turner_Thesis.html (3262 words)

	Turner Thesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It was entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." The "Turner thesis" or "frontier thesis," as his argument quickly became known, shaped both popular and scholarly views of the West (and of much else) for two generations.
		The settlement of the West by white people - "the existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward" - was the central story of American history.
		Shane and the Turner Thesis from David Daly and Joel Persky, "The Western: Myth and Reality," Journal of the West, April 1990.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/west/turner.html (237 words)

	Lecture One: The Frontier Theory and the Frontier Myth
		Lecture One: The Frontier Theory and the Frontier Myth
		Turner's thesis sentence was that "the existence of an area of free
		Turner was not the first to equate the frontier with democracy.
	www.ulm.edu /~legan/302L1.htm (1938 words)

	Frontier Theory
		U.S. civilian imaging spacecraft are perceived as a threat (while similar foreign spacecraft are not) because their use breaks an existing government...
		The first law of frontier theory is: Grow or die, and it...
		Thales of Miletus, a Greek philosopher who was a contemporary of Solon and Croesus more than six hundred years before the birth of Christ, left no written record, but only a reputation for wisdom.
	www.suite101.com /welcome.cfm/frontier_theory (489 words)

	Thesis - Pseudo Random Number Generators
		This thesis concerns pseudo random number generators from the mathematical point of view.
		Thesis does not handle neither seeding nor computers inner states, that are also very important in pseudo random number generation process.
		Thesis for the Department of Mathematical Sciences at University of Oulu.
	www.ee.oulu.fi /research/ouspg/frontier/sota/thesis-prng (150 words)

	The Virginian - Themes and the Frontier Life
		Distribute the Student Handout: The Virginian: Novel of the Frontier.
		Have students discuss the meaning and significance of "the frontier" in a traditional western.
		Have students choose a frontier to research and write about in terms of their significance in literature and/or film.
	www.turnerlearning.com /tntlearning/virginian/themes.html (432 words)

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