Frontier Thesis/Bibliography

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• Ray Allen Billington. The American Frontier (1958) 35 page essay on the historiography
• Billington, Ray Allen. Frederick Jackson Turner: historian, scholar, teacher. (1973). full-scale biography; online at ACLS e-books
• Billington, Ray Allen. ed,. The Frontier Thesis: Valid Interpretation of American History? (1966). The major attacks and defenses of Turner.
• Billington, Ray Allen. America's Frontier Heritage (1984). detailed analysis of Turner's theories from social science perspective
• Billington, Ray Allen. America's Frontier Heritage (1984), an analysis of Turner's theories in relation to social sciences and historiography
• Billington, Ray Allen. Land of Savagery / Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century (1981)
• Bogue, Allan G. Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down. (1988) along with Billington (1973), the leading full-scale biography
• Bogue, Allan G. "Frederick Jackson Turner Reconsidered," The History Teacher, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Feb., 1994), pp. 195-221 in JSTOR
• Cronon, William. "Revisiting the Vanishing Frontier: The Legacy of Frederick Jackson Turner," The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr., 1987), pp. 157-176 online at JSTOR
• Cronon, William, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin, eds. Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past (1992)
• Etulain, Richard W. Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional? (1999)
• Etulain, Richard W. Writing Western History: Essays on Major Western Historians (2002)
• Etulain, Richard W. and Gerald D. Nash, eds. Researching Western History: Topics in the Twentieth Century (1997)] online edition
• Faragher, John Mack, ed.Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and other essays, (1999) excerpt and text search
• Faragher, John Mack. "The Frontier Trail: Rethinking Turner and Reimagining the American West," The American Historical Review 98, no. 1 (February, 1993) in JSTOR
• Hine, Robert V. and John Mack Faragher. The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000), deals with events, not historiography
• Hofstadter, Richard. The Progressive Historians—Turner, Beard, Parrington. (1979), highly influential critique
• Hutton, T.R.C. "Beating a Dead Horse?: The Continuing Presence of Frederick Jackson Turner in Environmental and Western History." International Social Science Review. (2002) pp 47+. online edition
• Jacobs, Wilbur R. On Turner's Trail: 100 Years of Writing Western History (1994).
• Jensen, Richard. "On Modernizing Frederick Jackson Turner," Western Historical Quarterly 11 (1980), 307-20. in JSTOR
• Lamar, Howard R. ed. The New Encyclopedia of the American West (1998), 1000+ pages of articles by scholars
• Limerick, Patricia Nelson. "Turnerians All: The Dream of a Helpful History in an Intelligible World," The American Historical Review, Vol. 100, No. 3 (Jun., 1995), pp. 697-716 online at JSTOR
• Limerick, Patricia Nelson, Clyde A. Milner, and Charles E. Rankin, eds. Trails: Toward a New Western History (1991)
• Milner, Clyde A., II ed. Major Problems in the History of the American West 2nd ed (1997), primary sources and essays by scholars
• Nash, Gerald D. Creating the West: Historical Interpretations, 1890-1990 (1991)
• Nichols, Roger L. ed. American Frontier and Western Issues: An Historiographical Review (1986) essays by 14 scholars
• Paxson, Frederic/ History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 (1924), textbook
• Paxson, Frederic. The Last American Frontier (1910) full text online
• Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1800 (1973), complex literary reinterpretation of the frontier myth from its origins in Europe to Daniel Boone excerpt and text search
• Slotkin, Richard. The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890 (1998) excerpt and text search
• Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (1998), images of the west excerpt and text search
• Steiner, Michael C. "From Frontier to Region: Frederick Jackson Turner and the New Western History," Pacific Historical Review 64 (November 1995): 479-501 in JSTOR
• Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. 375 pp. (1920), Pulitzer prize online edition
• White, Richard, and Patricia Nelson Limerick. The Frontier in American Culture (1995), critique by advocates of the "New Western History"