Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports.
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On the closing of the American frontier.
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Porter, Robert P. Census Bureau's bulletin declaring the closing of the frontier. c. 1891.
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