Middlesex County is home to the city of Watertown, Massachusetts.
Ray Allen Billington -LRB- September 28 , 1903 in Bay City , Michigan - March 7 , 1981 in San Marino , California -RRB- was an American historian focusing his work on the history of the American frontier and the American West , becoming one of the leading defenders of Frederick Jackson Turner 's `` Frontier Thesis '' from the 1950s to the 1970s , expanding the field of the history of the American West .. historian. historian. Frederick Jackson Turner. Frederick Jackson Turner. He was a co-founder of the Western History Association in 1961 .. Western History Association. Western History Association