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On the persistence of the Turnerian frontier, see William Cronon, "Revisiting the Vanishing Frontier: The Legacy of Frederick Jackson Turner," Western Historical Quarterly 18 (1987): 157 – 76.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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While this writer's approach is dominantly Turnerian, this study does not necessarily contend that this Pennsylvania frontier was typical of the general colonial experience, nor that this ethnographic analysis presents in microcosm the development of the American ethos.
The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography George D. Wolf
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Other souls, like myself, less simple and sufficiently salted to know that these Turnerian dreams are generally the magical accidents of changing light and seldom the result of any intrinsic interest in the places themselves -- even they had a grievance when they saw the real
A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden Donald Maxwell 1906
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Bringhurst is definitely writing within a Turnerian framework.
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24In his memoir, Grogan offered a fanciful account of his initiation into the mysteries of wilderness by a Native American man, interesting mostly for its invocation of the Turnerian formula of wilderness as the touchstone of authentic manhood, and, thus, the salvation of human freedom.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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Turner’s influence was also evident in the work of Richard B. Morris whose Studies in the History of American Law, published in 1930, employed a Turnerian approach to demonstrate how frontier conditions in the colonies brought about changes in British law.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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Turner’s influence was also evident in the work of Richard B. Morris whose Studies in the History of American Law, published in 1930, employed a Turnerian approach to demonstrate how frontier conditions in the colonies brought about changes in British law.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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