Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.
Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893
We the Never Made The Tourney Club chroniclers do not endorse Turner’s retrograde views on American Indians. We do, however, follow his lead and shift our focus of the story of the NMTC to the Western frontier.
The East is old. Decaying. Resolved. We’ve seen virtually all of our club members east of the Mississippi play their part in this year’s play.