“Interesting to students or general readers.”
+ Booklist 17:109 D ’20 + Boston Transcript p6 N 3 ’20 880w + Grinnell R 16:356 F ’21 720w + Ind 104:249 N 13 ’20 70w
“The high significance of this work has long been recognized by writers on American history; but if the influence of Mr Turner were to be estimated on the basis of his published work alone, it would be accounted far less than it has in fact been.” Carl Becker
+ Nation 111:536 N 10 ’20 1050w
“Though the chapters in this book are essays on aspects of frontier history and written at different times, they might well have been written within a few months. The book contains a fund of information, clearly reasoned, significantly and concisely expressed. It is readable, and it is suggestive.” C. L. Skinner
+ N Y Evening Post p6 D 4 ’20 800w N Y Times p10 N 7 ’20 1500w
“Are we hypercritical in thinking that essays of such pith and moment demand a better format?”
+ − Outlook 126:558 N 24 ’20 60w
“The present volume sets forth in the clearest possible manner the view of American expansion which has inspired and illuminated all of Professor Turner’s work from the beginning. Among all American historians no one has so fully caught the meaning of the frontier in our national development.”