Turnerian

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1. Of or relating to J. M. W. Turner (circa 1775 – 1851), British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker.

   Among them was the “Madonna of the Prairie”—an angelic, idealistic, sunbonneted Euro-American woman, who went west with her family and aided in the Turnerian process of subduing the wilderness.

   2010, Gordon Morris Bakken, The World of the American West

2. Of or relating to Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), American historian, known primarily for his frontier thesis.

   Turnerian echoes of resilient pioneers pressing into a wilderness and transforming hard-scrabble frontier into a bastion of liberty remain in contemporary scholarship even if those frontiersmen are viewed with a more critical eye for the violence they perpetrated.

   2012, William H. Bergmann, “Introduction”, in The American National State and the Early West, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 2