`Progress of the Nation': The settlement history of the enduring American frontier.

Autor: Lang, Robert E., Popper, Deborah Epstein
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Zdroj: Western Historical Quarterly; Autumn95, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p289, 19p, 1 Black and White Photograph, 4 Charts
Abstrakt: Traces the historical and contemporary evolution of the American frontier using the density-based method employed by the 1890 census called `Progress of the Nation.' Tracking the distribution of population densities at decade intervals as a way of understanding low-density frontier settlement; Invocation of the census in the 1893 essay of Frederick Jackson Turner.
Databáze: Complementary Index