Vanishing Frontier
Artwork inspired by the Turner Thesis, sparking regret at the closing of the American frontier.
Quotes from The Turner Thesis by Frederick Jackson Turner
"The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." - Frederick Jackson Turner
"The frontier, is the line of most rapid Americanization." The presence and predominance of numerous cultural traits -- "that coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and acquisitiveness; that practical inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things... that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism" - Frederick Jackson Turner
"The Native American and Mexican may have found the American West and frontier less than the ideal that Turner held it up to be."- Leonard V. Hoover
Quotes from The Turner Thesis by Frederick Jackson Turner
"The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development." - Frederick Jackson Turner
"The frontier, is the line of most rapid Americanization." The presence and predominance of numerous cultural traits -- "that coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and acquisitiveness; that practical inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things... that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism" - Frederick Jackson Turner
"The Native American and Mexican may have found the American West and frontier less than the ideal that Turner held it up to be."- Leonard V. Hoover