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The Significance of the Frontier in
American History1
By Frederick Jackson Turner
Electronic edition prepared by Jack Lynch,
Rutgers University Newark
The text and notes come from chapter 1 of The Frontier in
American History (New York: Henry Holt, 1921). Paragraph
numbers are my own.
[1] In a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear
these significant words: "Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of
settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated
bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the
discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any
longer have a place in the census reports." This brief official statement marks
the closing of a great historic movement. Up to our own day American history
has been......
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