Frontier and Section: Selected Essays of Frederick Jackson Turner

by Ray Allen Billington (Editor)

Contains an introduction by Billington on Turner's role as an American historian. This is followed by nine of Turner's essays on American history including his classic, if lately contested, "Significance of the Frontier in American History." Also included are "The Significance of the Section in American History," and seven others, three of which concern the West.

171 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1961

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.

Reviews

[George Siehl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cogent selection of some of Turner's work. His writing is masterful and brings alive large segments of the history of the American West and the development of regional divisions in the United States that resulted with Western expansion. Latter day critics bemoan topics he didn't cover, such as the role of women, native Americans, etc.