Turner also believed that pioneers were “emancipated” from metropolitan influences, and that required they foster a spirit of individualism and self-determination.ġ0Gerald Friesen, “Recent Historical Writing on the Prairie West,” in Contemporary Approaches to Canadian History, ed., Carl Berger (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1987), 52-64.ġ1George F.G. According to Turner, each American frontier was won by a series of Indian wars.ĥCarl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing since 1900 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986), 118.ĦIbid., 118.

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