Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1988
Abstract
Any historian declaring his commitment to the tradition of Frederick Jackson Turner must assume that he will encounter controversy and challenge. In Turner's own essays, and in all the durable arguments provoked by his grand thesis, the precise meaning of the rubbery term frontier has been a matter of much confusion and difficulty. John Thompson has made a fresh attempt to use Turner's theory to explain the spontaneity and effervescence of the agrarian and labor insurgencies so strikingly present in "progressive" Oklahoma.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly WINTER 1988. Copyright 1988 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.