Frederick Jackson Turner’s thesis emphasized on the roots of the Western frontier. The expansion was the most important in the American history. All of Turner’s concepts are written in his essay “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”. He stated that, “The existence of an area of the free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development, but according the United States Census Bureau there was no longer a frontier line. The way Turner described the frontier and how he wrote his essay, it derived from a White American perspective, which leads to the New Western Historians to argue against his thesis. The New Western Historians claim the West is not the land of freedom
