This book is an in-depth exploration of the history of the American frontier from the colonial period to the present day. Written by renowned historian Ray Allen Billington, it provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the American West, from the first settlers to the present day. It examines the
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Ray Allen Billington was an American historian who researched the history of the American frontier and the American West, becoming one of the leading defenders of Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis" from the 1950s to the 1970s, expanding the field of the history of the American West. He was a co-founder of the Western History Association in 1961.