Turner, Bolton, and Webb. Three Historians of the American Frontier.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1965 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Small octavo. Pp. xiii, [1], [1]-113. Portraits of each subject. Selected annotated bibliography for each historian. Index. Dark blue cloth-backed orange boards. A very fine and crisp copy with decoratively printed yellow dust jacket (corner of front flap creased). First edition. Three modern historians profile three scholars who significantly influenced the contemporary concept of American frontier history: Frederick Jackson Turner and his epochal thesis on the Significance of the Frontier in American History; Herbert Eugene Bolton as Director of the Bancroft Library and Chairman of the U.C.L.C. history department and his methods of historical research; and Walter Prescott Webb, the independent scholar and rancher-writer-historian whose theories of The Great Plains and The Great Frontier shaped many minds at the University of Texas. .