History of the American Frontier

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History of the American Frontier
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Author Frederic L. Paxson
Country United States
Language English
Genre Non-fiction
Publisher Simon Publications [1]
Publication date
1924
Pages 628

History of the American Frontier is a book by Frederic L. Paxson published in 1924 by Simon Publications which won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for History. [2] [3]

Frederic Logan Paxson was an American historian. He had also been President of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master's from Harvard University. He taught at Wisconsin as successor to Frederick Jackson Turner and the University of California-Berkeley from 1932 to 1947.

Pulitzer Prize for History

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References

  1. Frederic L. Paxson (1 December 1924). History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893. SIMON PUBN. ISBN   978-1-931313-43-8 . Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  2. Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 282. ISBN   978-1-57356-111-2 . Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  3. "The 1925 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 10 July 2016.