Frontier, American/Bibliography

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• Billington, Ray Allen. America's Frontier Heritage (1984), an analysis of the frontier experience from perspective of social sciences and historiography
• Billington, Ray Allen. Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier (1952 and later editions), the most detailed textbook, with highly detailed annotated bibliographies
• Bouton, Terry. "The New and (Somewhat) Improved Frontier Thesis," Reviews in American History Volume 35, Number 4, December 2007 online at Project Muse
• Hine, Robert V. and John Mack Faragher. Frontiers: A Short History of the American West (2008), recent textbook excerpt and text search
• Kearns, Gerry. "The Virtuous Circle of Facts and Values in the New Western History," Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1998) 88 (3), 377–409.
• Lamar, Howard R. ed. The New Encyclopedia of the American West (1998), 1000+ pages of articles by scholars
• Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (1987) influential attack on Turnerian models.
• Milner, Clyde A., II ed. Major Problems in the History of the American West 2nd ed (1997), primary sources and essays by scholars
• Nichols, Roger L. ed. American Frontier and Western Issues: An Historiographical Review (1986) essays by 14 scholars
• Paxson, Frederic, History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 (1924), old textbook by Pulitzer Prize winner
• Slotkin, Richard, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 (2000), University of Oklahoma Press
• Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Frontier In American History" (1893)

Specialized studies

• Billington, Ray Allen. Land of Savagery / Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century (1981)
• Griffin, Patrick. American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier. (2007). 368 pp.
• Wrobel, David M. "Exceptionalism and Globalism: Travel Writers and the Nineteenth-Century American West," Historian, 68 (Fall 2006), 431–60.