ATDDTA (2): Freddie Turner (52.31)

[Paul Nightingale]

Given the successful writing of the Wild West in Chicago, it is perhaps
ironic that Turner's address to the American Historical Association (12
July) made, at the time, little impact.

From: Daisy L. Machado (2003) Of Borders and Margins: Hispanic Disciples in
Texas, 1888-1945, OUP

"Turner's frontier thesis was to become well known to later generations of
scholars and to stimulate much debate and controversy, yet it occasioned
almost no reaction or comment on the evening it was read. Even the
historians who received copies of the paper responded with little more than
polite interest. For example, Dr. Francis Walker, President of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after receiving a copy of the paper
wrote to Turner that he hoped to 'find time in the future to read the
paper.'" (23-24)

So far as I can tell, there is no evidence that Cody, Turner and Roosevelt
were ever in company. Perhaps one or all might have been found at a
burlesque, or on the Ferris Wheel.