Ray Allen Billington

The genesis of the frontier thesis : a study in historical creativity

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The American Frontier Thesis

EW TOPICS could more appropriately commemorate the one hunF dred tenth anniversary of the birth of Henry E. Huntington than that suggested to me by the genially persuasive Dr. Pomfret. Frontiering was in Mr. Huntingtons blood; his ancestors in 1633 helped plant Americas first frontier on the shores of Massachusetts Bay; he heard the call of the West when he moved to California in I892 to aid in the conquest of Americas last frontier on the Pacific. The fortune that he accumulated personified the hope for material gain that turned mens faces toward the setting sun for the three hundred years needed to settle the continent; his magnificent benefaction to this institution symbolized the idealism that sustained those pioneers as they marched westward. For Mr. Huntington, like the frontiersmen, believed that wealth was not the final goal. In this Library and Art Gallery he paid tribute to culture that is the ultimate in human endeavor, to ideas that dwarf all other creations of man. My purpose this afternoon is to discuss with you one of those ideas-one intimately associated with the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Living as we do in an age of materialistic