The collection includes course notes for Frederick Jackson Turner's history of the American West course, when Homer Cary Hockett was a graduate assistant to Turner at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, ca. 1902-1903. Hockett later was a faculty member at Ohio State University. Wilbur Jacobs, the donor, mentions the papers and the importance of such graduate assistants to Turner's work, in his book, Frederick Jackson Turner's Legacy (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1965), p. 14.

1.2 linear feet (3 document boxes)

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