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  • The thesis underwent extensive scrutiny in subsequent decades, and it turned out, Mr. Brown observes, that Turner "had underestimated the impact of nongeographic forces" -- such as the Enlightenment and the rise of cities, industry and organized labor -- "in the making of democratic states while overestimating the frontier's power to produce representative government."

    A Heartland View of History 2009

  • By the closing years of the nineteenth century, however, things had changed: the frontier's limits had been reached, the population was growing rapidly, and a blitz of novel technologies had arrived.

    Private Domain 2006

  • Westerns a little later in which automobiles and machine guns and cameras began to conflict with the American frontier's rough justice and primal way of life.

    Daniel Menaker: Zombies, Torture, Bloodsuckers 2008

  • By the closing years of the nineteenth century, however, things had changed: the frontier's limits had been reached, the population was growing rapidly, and a blitz of novel technologies had arrived.

    Private Domain 2006

  • By the closing years of the nineteenth century, however, things had changed: the frontier's limits had been reached, the population was growing rapidly, and a blitz of novel technologies had arrived.

    The Reinvention of Privacy 2001

  • By the closing years of the nineteenth century, however, things had changed: the frontier's limits had been reached, the population was growing rapidly, and a blitz of novel technologies had arrived.

    The Reinvention of Privacy 2001

  • By the closing years of the nineteenth century, however, things had changed: the frontier's limits had been reached, the population was growing rapidly, and a blitz of novel technologies had arrived.

    The Reinvention of Privacy 2001

  • By the closing years of the nineteenth century, however, things had changed: the frontier's limits had been reached, the population was growing rapidly, and a blitz of novel technologies had arrived.

    The Reinvention of Privacy 2001

  • The killings, which the actions of tribal Indians suggest were interpreted as retributive acts carried out against corrupt individuals, had, however, occurred on the frontier's colonial stage.

    The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Dari 2001

  • I certainly received the rough and ready training of the frontier's man in working clothes.

    To Change the World ! 1959

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