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In 1890 the Census Bureau had found the American West so densely populated that the frontier effectively vanished. No more was there a place so far removed from civilization as to be untamed wilderness. America, the Census Bureau declared, was settled. The historian Frederick Jackson Turner lamented this development three years later in his famous Frontier Thesis. “American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier,” he wrote.

In 1890 the Census Bureau had found the American West so densely populated that the frontier effectively vanished. No more was there a place so far