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.

Robert P. Porter

On the closing of the American frontier.

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Topic

American frontier

Author

Robert P. Porter

Source

Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Porter, Robert P. Census Bureau's bulletin declaring the closing of the frontier. c. 1891.

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Jules Huret
Language
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Time
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Citation

Mallarme, Stephane. Quoted in "Sur l'Evolution Litteraire [On Literary Evolution]." Enquete de Huret [Investigation by Jules Huret]. Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1891.