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Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down
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FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER
Strange Roads Going Down
Allan G. Bogue
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1998. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. xviii + 557 pp. $34.95.
When he went east in 1888 to study history at Johns Hopkins University, young Fred Turner hoped to pursue course work under the direction of American historian John Franklin Jameson. But when he arrived in Baltimore, Turner discovered that Jameson had departed for Brown University. Perhaps it was just as well; at that year's meeting of the American Historical Association, Jameson found western history tedious. ...
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