Beating a dead horse?: the continuing presence of Frederick Jackson Turner in environmental and western history. From: International Social Science Review | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Hutton, T.R.C. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Pi Gamma Mu. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In a 1992 review of William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Roderick Frazier Nash observed that "as the centennial of his controversial essay on the American frontier approaches in 1993, Frederick Jackson Turner has apparently become the whipping boy of every western historian." (1) Whether or not Nash was intimating a sympathy with Turner's Frontier Thesis or pointing out an inordinate amount of critical attention paid to an old essay, his remark borders o...

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