Abstract
IREDERICK JACKSON TURNER told his students that his own work had been strongly influenced by the idea of multiple hypotheses in scientific research postulated by the geologist Thomas C. Chamberlin. Homer C. Hockett recalled that Turner often had stressed Chamberlin's concepts in lectures and in the seminar at Wisconsin; and Merle Curti, who studied under Turner at Harvard, has also emphasized Turner's reliance on the concept of multiple hypotheses.' The question of the extent to which Turner actually adopted Chamberlin's methods is, indeed, an important one, not only because Turner believed Chamberlin's methodology to be as consequential for the serious study of history as it was for geology but also because Turner's own approach to historical research has exercised so great an influence on modern historical writing.2 Since Turner hoped that the procedures which he him-
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