In the decades that followed, the artist produced a vast array of drawings and paintings of birds in the American frontier. Having made a name for himself, Audubon purchased a 35-acre plot of land in ...

Amidst the excitement, Frederick Jackson Turner offered his listeners at a American historians seminar, a new idea. His thesis "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" mournfully ...

Frederick Jackson Turner presented his thesis, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." He began by quoting from the Census of 1890: "Up to and including 1880 the country had a ...