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The Frontier in American History
- Form
- Form Essay Collection
- Year
- Year 1920
- Pages
- Pages 380
In 1890 the census reported that the United States no longer had a frontier line. Settlement had broken so far west that the word had stopped meaning anything.
In this advance, the frontier is the outer edge of the wave—the meeting point between savagery and civilization.
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