Ray Allen Billington

Ray Allen Billington
Known fordefender of the "Frontier Thesis"
Academic work
Disciplinehistory
Main interestsAmerican frontier

Ray Allen Billington (September 28, 1903 in Bay City, Michigan - March 7, 1981 in San Marino, California) was an American historian who researched 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,[1][2] expanding the field of the history of the American West. He was a co-founder of the Western History Association in 1961.[3]

  1. ^ Billington, Ray Allen (January 1970). "The Frontier and I". Western Historical Quarterly. 1 (1): 4–20. doi:10.2307/967401. JSTOR 967401.
  2. ^ Ridge, Martin (January 1988). "Frederick Jackson Turner, Ray Allen Billington, and American Frontier History". Western Historical Quarterly. 19 (1): 4–20. doi:10.2307/969790. JSTOR 969790.
  3. ^ Lamar, Howard R. (October 1986). "Much to Celebrate: The Western History Association's Twenty-Fifth Birthday". Western Historical Quarterly. 17 (4): 397–416. doi:10.2307/969016. JSTOR 969016.