Go Lust, Young Man
January, 1994
In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner declared the American frontier dead. Turner meant that there was no more wilderness--that no matter where you went you'd find somebody else. But his essay argued that the frontier, the original promise of land and opportunity, had indelibly defined the American character, both morally and materially.There was truth in Turner's thesis. Frontier is as essentially American a word as castle is European. Whatever the facts of westward expansion, the truth o...
