From French coureurs de bois coursing through its waterways in the seventeenth century to the lumberjacks who rode logs down those same rivers in the late ninet

An intimate view of frontier women--Anglo and Indian--and the communities they forged.

This book contains four essays by and about Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), the Wisconsin-born historian whose ideas and writings have had such a profound

The first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains and along the Gulf Coast. Here, successive groups of pioneers built new societies and deve

The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner is a seminal work that profoundly shaped the understanding of the American character and its develo