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Ray Allen Billington

Ray Allen Billington (September 28, 1903 in Bay City, Michigan - March 7, 1981 in San Marino, California) 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,[1][2] expanding the field of the history of the American West. He was a co-founder of the Western History Association in 1961.[3]

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Born 1903
Died 1981

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  • Cover of: Westward expansion: a history of the American frontier

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  • Cover of: Land of savagery/land of promise: the European image of the American frontier in the nineteenth century

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  • Cover of: American history after 1865.

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  • Cover of: Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding: Report of a Committee on National Bias in Anglo-American History Text Books

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  • Cover of: The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860.

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  • Cover of: America's frontier heritage

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  • Cover of: The reinterpretation of early American history: essays in honor of John Edwin Pomfret.

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  • Cover of: Westward expansion; a history of the American frontier

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  • Cover of: The making of American democracy: readings and documents

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Born 1903
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Subjects

History, Frontier and pioneer life, Territorial expansion, Frontier thesis, Historiography, Catholics, Politics and government, American Party, Protestants, Sources, Histoire, Persecution, Public opinion, Vie des pionniers, West (u.s.), history, American National characteristics, Expansion territoriale, Nativism, United States, West (U.S.), Congresses, Cowboys, European Foreign opinion, Foreign opinion, European, Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.)

Places

United States, West (U.S.), Europe, Mississippi River Valley, New Southwest, Southern California, The West, California, TheWest, USA, West

People

Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), Frederick Jackson Turner, Everett Newfon Dick (1898-), John E. Pomfret (1898-1981), John Edwin Pomfret (1898-), John Edwin, 1898- Ponfret, Maria Monk (d. 1850)

Time

1783-1865, 1815-1861, 1803-1865, 19th century, 1848-1860, 1865-, To 1848

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  • Ray A. Billington

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June 11, 2024 Edited by dcapillae Edited without comment.
June 11, 2024 Edited by dcapillae merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import