Abstract
ineteen-ninety is a memorable year for western historians. In one sense, it is the end of an era, and in another, it is the beginning of a new one. It marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the celebrated United States Census in which Patrick Porter, the obscure superintendent in charge, announced the closing of the frontier. The words of this unknown English journalist and bureaucrat were soon to be immortalized by Frederick Jackson Turner in his frontier thesis, which gave rise to a new perspective on the American past. It became the lens through which several successive generations viewed the West and its role in the broader context of the national experience. Even now, in 1990, the Turner thesis has not wholly lost its spell. Its impact on the minds of historians and non-historians alike was no less powerful than on their emotions.'
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