The Frontier In Frederick Turner's The Great West

The Importance of history is not merely on the eastern portion of the United States. American history expands beyond the imaginary borders of the east, there is --the Frontier, “the great West”. Frederick Turner is shaming writers for being narrow-minded and asserts historians have a duty to expand their examination of America, for “as a field for the serious study of the economist and the historian it has been neglected.” America’s frontier ultimately expanded to the west, however societies gradually emerged. Admittedly, “much has been written about the frontier from the point of view of border warfare and the chase.”

The author has used the division of east and west to show that “American institutions, (and I am placing historians into