America's frontier heritage.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Histories of the American frontier
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- United States; National characteristics, American
Description: Analysis of the attitudes and behavioral traits judged to be most distinctively "American" by European travelers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Weighs the pros and cons of Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.