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- ↑ (Review): "'Rediscovering America: John Muir in His Time and Ours', By Frederick W. Turner" , Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, Pp. 490-491
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- ↑ "Review: Spirit of Place: The Making of An American Literary Landscape by Frederick Turner", Kirkus Reviews
- ↑ "A Border of Blue: Along the Gulf of Mexico From the Keys to the Yucatan" (Review), Entertainment Weekly, issue #160 Mar 05, 1993
- ↑ "When the Boys Came back" (Review), Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 1996
- ↑ Lee Sandlin, "In Praise of the Gross," Wall Street Journal , February 2, 2012.
