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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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, WestPeople
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)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL603912A
- ISNI: 0000000109283199
- VIAF: 98350591
- Wikidata: Q7297132
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q7297132
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- Ray A. Billington
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