F.J.TURNER’S FRONTIER THESIS, A SUMMARY OF THE STEPS The steps toward city building
Turner’s frontier “begins with the Indian and the hunter: it goes on to tell of the disintegration of savagery by the entrance of the trader, the pathfinder of civilization; we read the annals of the pastoral stage in ranch life; the exploitation of the soil by the raising of unrotated crops of corn and wheat in sparsely settled farming communities; the intensive culture of denser farm settlement; and finally the manufacturing organization with city and factory system.”
Indian origins
Pathfinders, hunters
traders
Cattle raisers, pastoral stage
Small farms
Extensive grain farms
Urban manufacturing---Cities
Chicago “where all the forces of nature intersect” Frederick J. Turner
The frontier is where “civilization meets savagery” Frederick Jackson Turner quote