In this essay, Turner addresses many aspects of the frontier from its historic significance, to its contrast to European traditions, to the pros and cons of its relationship to individualism. It was interesting to consider the eastern states as the frontier of Europe, and as independence was achieved how the frontier had physically moved. Again, as with ‘O Pioneers’ we see the struggle between society and the wild, with society eventually championing but only after considerable. Further he stresses the different manners in which society championed, that laws and order differed in each town. This speaks to the larger question of individualism, and how in land for which there are no societal restrictions each person is able to find their own way. Perhaps most interesting to me of the piece was the culture of the pioneer, one fraught with “restless, nervous energy.”