Book

The Westerners

Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier

Megan Kate Nelson

2026

Charles Scribner's Sons

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Painting entitled 'American Progress' by John Gast

Frederick Jackson Turner’s Groundbreaking Frontier Thesis Was a Flop When He First Read It

How myth-making about the frontier shaped U.S. national identity, and who it left out.

by Megan Kate Nelson via Literary Hub on April 1, 2026

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