Bound Away offers a new understanding of the Westward movement.
They share with Turner the idea of the Westward Movement as a creative process of high importance in American hi.
Kelly take a third approach to the subject.
After the Turner thesis which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C.
Bound Away offers a new understanding of the Westward movement