Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915: Pioneer Adaptation and Community Building : an Anthropological History

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• Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915 *
• Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915 *
• Contents *
• Illustrations *
• Acknowledgments *
• Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915 *
• Chapter 1 - Locale and Approach 1
• Chapter 2 - Settlement and Environment in the Canadian-American West 12
• Chapter 3 - Settlement Patterns and Ethnicity 27
• Chapter 4 - Setting Out: Emigration as a Social Process 40
• Chapter 5 - Starting Off: Interactive Adaptation on the Homestead Frontier 55
• Chapter 6 - Settling In: Family and Household in the Homesteading Experience 77
• Chapter 7 - Growing Up: Memories of Childhood 94
• A Photographic Portfolio *
• Chapter 8 - Coming Together: the Formation of the Homestead Frontier Community 108
• Chapter 9 - Institutions and Services: the Postfrontier Community 123

• Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915 *
• Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915 *
• Contents *
• Illustrations *
• Acknowledgments *
• Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915 *
• Chapter 1 - Locale and Approach 1
• Chapter 2 - Settlement and Environment in the Canadian-American West 12
• Chapter 3 - Settlement Patterns and Ethnicity 27
• Chapter 4 - Setting Out: Emigration as a Social Process 40
• Chapter 5 - Starting Off: Interactive Adaptation on the Homestead Frontier 55
• Chapter 6 - Settling In: Family and Household in the Homesteading Experience 77
• Chapter 7 - Growing Up: Memories of Childhood 94
• A Photographic Portfolio *
• Chapter 8 - Coming Together: the Formation of the Homestead Frontier Community 108
• Chapter 9 - Institutions and Services: the Postfrontier Community 123
• Chapter 10 - Women's Organizations: from Country District to Nation 140
• Chapter 11 - Rudyard: a Railroad‐ Homestead Town as Seen by Contemporaries 156
• Chapter 12 - Lives: Town Builders 182
• Chapter 13 - Lives: Country Men and Women 199
• Chopter 14 - The Political Aftermath 245
• Notes 257
• Bibliography 267
• Index 291