...opportunity, entrepreneurialism, and social and economic mobility — core components of the American dream. "Since the days when the fleet of Columbus sailed into the waters of the New World," Turner wrote, "America has been another name for opportunity, and the people of the United States have...

...added, in a line that embraced the nation's emerging political economy as well as its storied past, "America has been another name for opportunity, and...have taken their tone from the incessant expansion" virtually forced upon them by their environment. The "expansive character of American life," he predicted,...

...read his famous paper on the significance of the frontier in American life, in which he had cautioned: "He would be a rash prophet who should assert that...character of American life has now entirely ceased." 7 The Prairie and its Paris-bound stores bore out Turner's prediction. When they arrived in Paris,...

...are traits of the frontier, or traits called out elsewhere because of the existence of the frontier. Since the days when the fleet of Columbus sailed into...has not only been open but has even been forced upon them.2 There's something a bit quaint in this listing that recalls a period when people actually believed...

...arrive here and now — the Cowden Ranch, New Mexico, at the end of the twentieth century. Gone to Texas He would be a rash prophet who should assert that...of American life has now entirely ceased. Movement has been its dominant fact, and, unless this training has no effect upon a people, the American energy...

...Geschichte, sondern auch ein sehr wichtiger Faktor für die Bildung des 'National Character's war. "Since the days when the fleet of Columbus sailed...only been open but has even been forced upon them." Amerika gilt als das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten, es gilt als 'Neue Welt', in der alles passieren...

...einmal angestoßen worden ist, muß wie bei Tennysons Ulysses immer weiter laufen. Noch einmal Turner: He would be a rash prophet who should assert that...of American life has now entirely ceased. Movement has been its dominant fact, and [...] the American energy will continually demand a wider field for...

...concluding paragraph of his thesis, Turner placed what would become one of his most quoted passages: "He would be a rash prophet who should assert that...of American life has now entirely ceased. Movement has been its dominant fact, and unless this training has no effect upon a people, the American energy...

...to do with education, or even with fantasy and faith, but rather with the course of American power. "He would be a rash prophet who should assert that...character of American life has now entirely ceased," declared Frederick Jackson Turner, a thirty-two-year-old historian from Harvard. Rather, the "restless,...

..."The Significance of the Frontier in American History" by recapitulating the jeremiad prophetically: Since the days when the fleet of Columbus sailed into...been forced upon them. He would be a rash prophet who would assert that the expansive character of American life has now entirely ceased. Movement has been...