In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner published his revolutionary essay “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” A century later, many of the country’s most innovative scholars of Western History assembled at a conference at Utah State University under the direction of historian Clyde A Milner 11. Here they delivered papers meant to map the exciting new territory opened in recent years in the history of the West. Gathering the best of these essays, the collection aims to produce a compelling assessment of the newest Western historiography.

Cultural Identity, Native Americans, Westward Expa