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Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill - studythepast
Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo bill Richard White Americans have never had much use for history, but we do like anniversaries. In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner , who would become the most eminent historian of his generation, was in Chicago to deliver an academic paper at the historical congress convened in conjunction with the Columbian Exposition. The occasion for the exposition was a slightly belated celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Western Hemisphere. The paper Turner presented was "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." 1 Although public anniversaries often have educational pretensions, they are primarily popular entertainments; it is the combination of the popular and the educational that makes the figurative meeting of Buffalo bill and Turner at the Columbian Exposition so suggestive. Chicago celebrated its own progress from frontier beginnings.
Turner masterfully deployed the images of log cabins, wagon trains, and frontier farming—and the stories that went with them. He fashioned these into a sweeping explanation of the nation's past.
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