Guides to American history manuscript collections in libraries of the United States

by Ray Allen Billington

496 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1952

About the author

Ray Allen Billington was an American historian focusing his work on the history of the American frontier and the American West, becoming one of the leading defenders of Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis" from the 1950s to the 1970s, expanding the field of the history of the American West. He was a co-founder of the Western History Association in 1961.