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Article: The West Laughs Last: Humor Writers
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The West Laughs Last: Humor Writers
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New Frontiers.
In July 1893 at the World
’
s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) delivered an address on
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The Significance of the Frontier in American History.
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The true point of view in the history of this nation,
”
Turner argued,
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is not the Atlantic coast, it is the great West.
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Throughout the course of American history, the
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West
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had beckoned to explorers, settlers, and speculators, inspiring all with visions of untamed land and untapped resources. Turner
’
s dismissal of
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the Atlantic coast
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turned ...