...Harry R. Stevens Valley of Democracy: The Frontier versus the Plantation in the Ohio Valley, 1775-1818 . By Barnhart John D. . Indiana University Publications, Social Science Series No. 11 . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1953 . Pp. x , 338 . Cloth, $5.00 . Paper, $3.75...

.... By John D. Barnhart. Indiana University Publications, Social Science Series No. 11. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1953. Pp. x, 338. Cloth, $5.00. Paper, $3.75. Professor Barnhart has examined the political and social development of Kentucky and three states of the Northwest during the period...

...? Barnhart s work is a worthy conclusion to more than half a century of study of the Turner thesis along lines and with methods popular in the nineties. Until new and more penetrating questions are directed toward the evidence, we seem likely to have only a continuation of manipulating statistical detail...

... to the chapters on frontier theory in Billington s Westward Expansion or Barnhart s Valley of Democracy. Thus, in a sense, the book has virtually no mean­ ing. It has no general conclusion to present, no neatly packaged idea to be carried away. But if theories, statistics, processes, and forces are few...

... is made to adhere to a thesis. Nothing in the volume corresponds to the chapters on frontier theory in Billington s Westward Expansion or Barnhart s Valley of Democracy. Thus, in a sense, the book has virtually no mean­ ing. It has no general conclusion to present, no neatly packaged idea to be carried...