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Thomas Perkins Abernethy studied at Harvard and was among the Turner's graduate students. His topic was - “From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee”. He opted for an integrating way in approaching the history. Abernathy challenge Turner's theory as he felt hat science is studied through specimen’s examinations and on contrast the history is too huge to examine so minutely. In his research Abernethy accepted the Turner's idea related to the frontier, but it directly refutes the optimistic version of Turner's towards the western history as he found that people in America were interested in land at western included more than yeoman farmers and pioneer squatters of the "interior democracy." Moreover he also refuted with Turner’s views that Jackson was an honest people’s mountain man. Abernethy instead suggested the Jackson to be ever an aristocrat at heart. Consequently the Turner's theories were considered to be unfashionable as people complained that the regionalism was neglected