From the Editor's Desk

From the Editor's Desk

Hey y’all, The historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously declared the frontier closed in 1893. This was hardly news. Three years prior, the 1890 census found that the frontier simply no longer existed; the West’s population density was so great by then that “the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line,” Turner qu...