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- 1From:Oceania (Vol. 80, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor more than a century, from the 1870s to the 1980s, stockmen were important intermediaries and figures of power and influence in the construction, maintenance and renewal of the colonial order in New Caledonia. Social...
- 2From:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBY SNOWSHOE, BUCKBOARD AND STEAMER: WOMEN OF THE FRONTIER Kathryn Bridge. Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1998. By Snowshoe, Buckboard and Steamer: Women of the Frontier details the challenges of four women as they...
- 3From:Northern Review (Issue 27) Peer-ReviewedPurpose Many of us who migrate to the northern regions of the world sense that we have become different people in the North than we would be if we had chosen to live in more populous and developed regions. In this...
- 4From:Libraries & Culture (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the book distribution efforts of the Connecticut Missionary Society between 1798 and 1812. As part of an effort to aid Congregationalist migrants in frontier settlements, the society distributed...
- 5From:Critical Studies in Men's Fashion (Vol. 5, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThe cowboy has long been an icon of the American West, and in many ways, the cowboy has become the symbol of the American man. This understanding of the cowboy as the ideal of masculinity has held true even in alternate...
- 6From:Northwest Review (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI. Dear Addie: We are having a fine old time in Billings, Pat Rogers is up here too I guess this is the poor hitting the high places, going out for a ride on a automobile. Couple of fine kids from Miles City & my good...
- 7From:The Geographical Review (Vol. 100, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHistorical first-generation frontier roads in America's trans-Appalachian West often evolved from buffalo and Indian trails into pioneer routeways such as Daniel Boone's Trace and, eventually, into twentieth-century...
- 8From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 121, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHow to Get There (I) The Changeling T he psychic lived in a ticky-tacky house in South Vancouver, did her readings at a Formica kitchen table and began each morning by hanging upside down. She was 76 years old...
- 9From:Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Vol. 53, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedArguments are presented about the conservation of land and water in Arizona and adjacent western states in relation to the Myth of the Frontier. The region is considered resistant to economic change and urbanization due...
- 10From:Alberta History (Vol. 67, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI am one of the pioneers of the Lac Ste. Anne district. We came from Saskatchewan to take up homesteads here. We came to Wabamun on the Grand Trunk Pacific in 1912, and from there with oxen wagon we moved north to Lac...
- 11From:Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (Vol. 18, Issue 1)In the morning the girls' mother pinned the blanket around her two daughters and slapped the horse's croup. The older daughter held the reins and the younger daughter wrapped her arms around her sister's waist and both...
- 12From:The Chariton Review (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOtto was on his belly, playing in the tall grass, shoving aside clumps to look at and feel for the permanence in rocks and dirt, when two great arms seized him and lifted him above the grass. From his position, he saw...
- 13From:Poetry (Vol. 196, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA Kansan plays cards, calls Marshall a crawdad, that barb lands that rascal a slap; that Kansanjackass scats, camps back at caballada ranch. Hangs kack, ax, and camp hat. Kansan's nag mad and rants can't bask, can't...
- 14From:Alberta History (Vol. 62, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe early traveller, making his way over the prairie, following the paths of the wandering bands of Indians from landmark to landmark, began to etch in the trails between the first white settlements in the early...
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- 16From:The Southern Review (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE OREGON TRAIL ran from the back entrance of Bridge Elementary down through the school yard to the edge of the woods. Cones marked the journey. Not the satisfying rubber cones you could squish down with your body...
- 17From:Alberta History (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOne of the notable characters in the history of southern Alberta was John J. Healy who, in partnership with Alfred J. Hamilton, built Fort Whoop-Up in 1869 near the present city of Lethbridge to sell whiskey to the...
- 18From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMary Crow, Autumn 1992 They tell me to write about the West, about mountains, rivers, arroyos. I take a feather from my pocket, write the wheat's waving across the sky. They tell me to write about the frontier, about...
- 19From:The Southern Review (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed1752. THE BOY HOEING CORN BESIDE THE CREEK is powerfully built though not tall. He is probably about five foot eight with blue eyes and light brown hair plaited and hanging to his shoulder. From time to time he pauses...
- 20From:The Geographical Review (Vol. 90, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT. Like the North American frontier, Ecuador's Amazonian margin has advanced in periodic waves. But the impetus has been extremely varied, interlacing periods of socioeconomic crisis with times of prosperity....