Dear Lady: The Letters of Frederick Jackson Turner and Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper, 1910-1932

by Ray Allen Billington, Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper

First edition. Turner was a leading historian of the frontier and he wrote to this Boston lady concerning his research and other matters. Interesting look at the development of research into the study of the opening of the west. Bookplate indicates that this volume was given out to the XIV Congress of the International Association of Bibliophiles as a gift by the Zamorano Club during their visit to Los Angeles. 487 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. thick 8vo..

490 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1970

About the author

Ray Allen Billington was an American historian focusing his work on the history of the American frontier and the American West, becoming one of the leading defenders of Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis" from the 1950s to the 1970s, expanding the field of the history of the American West. He was a co-founder of the Western History Association in 1961.