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* Billington, Ray Allen. ''America's Frontier Heritage'' (1984), an analysis of the frontier experience from perspective of social sciences and historiography | * Billington, Ray Allen. ''America's Frontier Heritage'' (1984), an analysis of the frontier experience from perspective of social sciences and historiography | ||
* Billington, Ray Allen. ''Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier'' (1952 and later editions), the most detailed textbook, with highly detailed annotated bibliographies | * Billington, Ray Allen. ''Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier'' (1952 and later editions), the most detailed textbook, with highly detailed annotated bibliographies | ||
* Hine, Robert V. and John Mack Faragher. ''The American West: A New Interpretive History'' (2000), recent textbook | * Hine, Robert V. and John Mack Faragher. ''The American West: A New Interpretive History'' (2000), recent textbook | ||
* Kearns, Gerry. "The Virtuous Circle of Facts and Values in the New Western History," ''Annals of the Association of American Geographers'' (1998) 88 (3), 377–409. | * Kearns, Gerry. "The Virtuous Circle of Facts and Values in the New Western History," ''Annals of the Association of American Geographers'' (1998) 88 (3), 377–409. | ||
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* Slotkin, Richard, ''Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860'' (2000), University of Oklahoma Press | * Slotkin, Richard, ''Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860'' (2000), University of Oklahoma Press | ||
* Turner, Frederick Jackson. [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/ "The Frontier In American History"] (1893) | * Turner, Frederick Jackson. [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/ "The Frontier In American History"] (1893) | ||
==Specialized studies== | |||
* Billington, Ray Allen. ''Land of Savagery / Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century'' (1981) | |||
* Griffin, Patrick. ''American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier.'' (2007). 368 pp. | |||
* Wrobel, David M. "Exceptionalism and Globalism: Travel Writers and the Nineteenth-Century American West," ''Historian'', 68 (Fall 2006), 431–60. | * Wrobel, David M. "Exceptionalism and Globalism: Travel Writers and the Nineteenth-Century American West," ''Historian'', 68 (Fall 2006), 431–60. |
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- Billington, Ray Allen. America's Frontier Heritage (1984), an analysis of the frontier experience from perspective of social sciences and historiography
- Billington, Ray Allen. Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier (1952 and later editions), the most detailed textbook, with highly detailed annotated bibliographies
- Hine, Robert V. and John Mack Faragher. The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000), recent textbook
- Kearns, Gerry. "The Virtuous Circle of Facts and Values in the New Western History," Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1998) 88 (3), 377–409.
- Lamar, Howard R. ed. The New Encyclopedia of the American West (1998), 1000+ pages of articles by scholars
- Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (1987) influential attack on Turnerian models.
- Milner, Clyde A., II ed. Major Problems in the History of the American West 2nd ed (1997), primary sources and essays by scholars
- Nichols, Roger L. ed. American Frontier and Western Issues: An Historiographical Review (1986) essays by 14 scholars
- Paxson, Frederic, History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 (1924), old textbook by Pulitzer Prize winner
- Slotkin, Richard, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 (2000), University of Oklahoma Press
- Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Frontier In American History" (1893)
Specialized studies
- Billington, Ray Allen. Land of Savagery / Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century (1981)
- Griffin, Patrick. American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier. (2007). 368 pp.
- Wrobel, David M. "Exceptionalism and Globalism: Travel Writers and the Nineteenth-Century American West," Historian, 68 (Fall 2006), 431–60.