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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: Pioneer Adaptation and Community Building : an Anthropological History

by John W. Bennett, Seena B. Kohl. 295 pgs.

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books on: (Frontier And Pioneer Life Northwestern States) OR (Land Settlement Northwestern States History) OR (Frontier And Pioneer Life Prairie Provinces)  - 13997 results

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Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915: Pioneer Adaptation and Community Building : an Anthropological History
Book by John W. Bennett, Seena B. Kohl; University of Nebraska Press, 1995
Subjects: Frontier And Pioneer Life--Northwestern States, Frontier And Pioneer Life--Prairie Provinces, Land Settlement--Northwestern States--History, Land Settlement--Prairie Provinces--History, Northwestern States--History, Prairie Provinces--History
...and pioneer life Northwestern States. 2. Land settlement Northwestern States History. 3. Northwestern States History. 4. Frontier and pioneer life Prairie Provinces. 5. Land settlement Prairie Provinces History. 6. Prairie Provinces History...
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The Settlement of the West
Book by Howard Palmer; University of Calgary Press, 1977
Subjects: Frontier And Pioneer Life--Prairie Provinces, Land Settlement--Prairie Provinces--History, Prairie Provinces--History
...society. For those who went to the land, pioneering was a challenge which called forth...churches, and other amenities of "civilized" life were at a very rudimentary stage and...society which was developing on the frontier, and a whole multitude of reformers...concerned with immigration from the United States at the turn of the century, and shows...
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The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier: Being the Log of the Upper Missouri Historical Expedition under the Auspices of the Governors & Historical Associations of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Montana for 1925
Book by Agnes C. Laut, Charles M. Russell; R. M. McBride and Company, 1926
Subjects: Frontier And Pioneer Life--Northwestern States, Northwestern States
...and his brother breaking at the prairies sod. Thou hast heard the evening song of the host of pioneer mothers in frontier homes of poverty lulling their...the very fabric of our national life. Gracious Father sustain us...his brother breaking at the prairies sod. Thou hast heard the evening song of the host of pioneer mothers, in frontier homes of poverty, lulling their...the very fabric of our national life . Gracious Father, sustain...Ten Commandments beyond the frontier village of St. Louis. Each man...and the rest left to rot on the prairie. The Indian was a greater waster...thundering herds, the Indian life was one of ease, idleness, and...
4.
Frontiers of the Northwest: A History of the Upper Missouri Valley
Book by Harold E. Briggs; Peter Smith, 1950
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life--Northwestern States, Missouri River Valley--History, Northwestern States--History
...THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI A MODERN PIONEER PREFACE SOME fifteen years ago...And here to-day the rodeo and the frontier day celebration, the dude ranch...xiv. CULTURAL LIFE 89 xv...xii. LIFE OF THE FRONTIER FARMER 581...ILLUSTRATIONS "PIONEERS! O PIONEERS!" Frontispiece...326 A PIONEER LEGISLATURE OF DAKOTA TERRITORY...VAUDEVILLE ON THE FRONTIER 576...than any other phase of American life, mining has presented the spectacle...
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Prairie Albion: An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois
Book by Charles Boewe; Southern Illinois University Press, 1999
Subjects: Albion (Ill.)--History--19th Century, British Americans--Illinois--Edwards County--History--19th Century, Edwards County (Ill.)--History--19th Century, Frontier And Pioneer Life--Illinois--Edwards County
...ALBION AN ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN PIONEER ILLINOIS CHARLES BOEWE SOUTHERN...rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 02 01 00 99 4 3 2 1 Library...Albion Ill. --History--19th century. 3. Frontier and pioneer life--Illinois--Edwards County. 4. Edwards...Pittsburgh and its smoke, I passed in a northwestern direction, to the almost de serted...
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Canada's Most Wanted: Pioneer Women on the Western Prairies [*]
Journal article by Sandra Rollings-Magnusson; The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 37, 2000
Subjects: Prairie Provinces--History, Women pioneers--History
...Overcoming the climatic and geographical obstacles to the European settlement of the western Canadian prairies was a difficult and hazardous...Growers Guide, July 30, p. 8(824). Binnie-Clark, G. 1982. "Land and the woman in Canada." In A Flannel Shirt and Liberty...28. Eager, E. 1953. "Our Pioneers Say:--." Saskatchewan History, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-12. Easterbrook, W.T. 1938. Farm...
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Making a Pioneer Landscape in the Oklahoma Territory
Journal article by Leslie Hewes; The Geographical Review, Vol. 86, 1996
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life--History, Homesteading--History, Oklahoma--History
...Figure 8, was built in 1893 on the northwestern corner of the Gifford claim, with support...THINGS MORE ATTRACTIVE The Mount Hope frontier landscape was first of all utilitarian...summer or autumn fruit. What of the pioneers? Figure 2 shows that only eight of...naturalized citizen, was loyal to the United States, was aged twenty-one or older, was...Community on the Middle Border. In Land and Life: A Selection from the Writings of Carl...
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An Innis, Not a Turner
Journal article by Frances W. Kaye; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 31, 2001
Subjects: Historical research--Analysis, Historiography--Analysis, Prairie Provinces--History, Western States--History
...game or fled glaciers. The "United States of America" and the "Dominion of Canada...the United States deployed a continuous frontier of Amer-European settlement--despite...fur-trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer--and the frontier has passed by...contact doomed the Aboriginal way of life, his account recognized the indispensability...
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Vanishing the Haida: George Dawson's Ethnographic Vision and the Making of Settler Space on the Queen Charlotte Islands in the Late Nineteenth Century
Journal article by Jason Grek-Martin; The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 51, 2007
Subjects: Cultural anthropology--Analysis, Dawson, George--Works, Ethnology--Analysis, Haidas--Demographic aspects, Haidas--Distribution, Land settlement--Analysis
...decayed. The steady brightness of civilized life seemed to dim and extinguish the flickering...be trusted to observe and represent the provinces indigenous peoples faithfully. As it happens...open field for missionary labour Mission Life, 27-35 ROSSITER, D. 2004 The nature of...M. 1868 Scenes and Studies of Savage Life (London: Smith, Elder and Company) STERRITT...
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'The Last Frontier': Rationalizing the Spread of Farming into the Boreal Woods of Canada, C. 1910-1940
Journal article by J. David Wood; The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 50, 2006
Subjects: Agriculture--Analysis, Agriculture--Forecasts and trends, Agriculture--History, Agriculture--Laws, regulations and rules, Canada--Agricultural policy, Canada--Natural history
...and on the high plains of the United States, it was not the last frontier. At odds with the popular perception...and on the other in the making of life-altering decisions involved in going...arms length from the experience of pioneering, and although most of them would have...appointed to districts in northern Ontario. Northwestern Ontario was dawning on the public consciousness...
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New Horizons for the American West
Magazine article by Margaret Walsh; History Today, Vol. 44, March 1994
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life--History, Western States--History, Women pioneers--History
...been given respectability through the pioneering work of Frederick Jackson Turner. His famous thesis The Significance of the Frontier in American History, first published...homesteaders, fur traders or the United States army. In Ray A. Billingtons monumental...domains of fur trading, mining and army life. Where women were absent, as on some...Pacific Coast, with the exception of the northwestern states of Washington and Oregon, the...
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America's North Star: A Tour of Alaska, Our Last Frontier State, Shows What America and Americans Were Once Like: Self-Reliant, Bold, Freedom-Loving, and Disdainful of Government Intervention
Magazine article by Charles Scaliger; The New American, Vol. 24, March 31, 2008
Subjects: Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Discovery and exploration, Alaska--Natural history, Automobile travel--Personal narratives, Business districts, National parks, National parks and reserves
...almost-unexplored Far East in search of the northwestern coast of the American continent. Days...Glacier Bay National Parks in the United States and Kluane National Park in adjacent...century. Yet modern Alaska remains a frontier--wild, rugged, dangerous, and above...Alaska. "Ive lived here most of my life," one of Hyders residents and former...epitomizes Alaskas risk-embracing, pioneer spirit more than her bush pilots. Over...
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Battleground of the Eye
Magazine article by Jonathan Raban; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, March 2001
Subjects: Land use--Western United States, Landscape painting--History, Pacific Northwest--Environmental policy
...that debate almost anywhere in the United States, but in the Pacific Northwest it is conducted...greenery in which every palm frond has a life of its own. Cooks ship left the palms...English Channel. To British eyes the Pacific Northwestern light falls at a familiar and homely angle...
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An Uncertain Influence: The Role of the Federal Government in California, 1846-1880
Magazine article by Robert J. Chandler; California History, Winter 2003
Subjects: California--History, Federalism--History
...famed 1901 novel for squeezing the life out of wheat farmers. Yet Richard...Press, 1950); and Joseph Ellisons pioneering California and the Nation, 1850-1869: A Study of the Relations of a Frontier Community with the Federal Government...Henry Carleton, 1914-1873: Western Frontier Dragoon (Glendale, Calif.: The...Esq., the Veritable Squibob: A Life of Captain George H. Derby, USA...Oscar Lewis, George Davidson: Pioneer West Coast Scientist (Berkeley...2d sess., 1889; John C. Cremony, Life among the Apaches, 1850 -1868...Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American...25,1864, Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco. (59.) San Francisco...
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How Mid-Sized Cities Can Avoid Strangulation
Magazine article by Molly O'Meara; Public Management, Vol. 81, May 1999
Subjects: City planning--Case studies, Curitiba, Brazil--Civic improvement and public works, Portland, Oregon--Civic improvement and public works, Urban renewal--Case studies
...another drama was unfolding in the northwestern United States. Portland, Oregon, according to the...in its region. Like other New World frontier towns, each has reinvented itself in...settlements of poor newcomers. What makes life more bearable for the poor in Curitiba...parking lot into a pedestrian-only plaza, Pioneer Courthouse square, in the heart of...
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Woman Put Geographic History on U.S. Map
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 26, 2007
...relentless westward expansion of the United States; and the emergence of the United States...political-geographical conditions of northwestern Virginia and the important border states...Grant initiated a combined naval and land attack on Vicksburg, Tenn., which...control of eastern Tennessee. "The Gulf states were cut off from the Atlantic states...Churchill Semples landmark book, "American History and Its Geographic Conditions," included...
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The Judge Win Knoch Used Friendly Persuasion, Personal Example to Spur City's Growth
Newspaper article by Michael Wamble; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 8, 2006
...the lasting contributions Knoch made to life in Naperville. While serving five decades...regularly appointed DuPage County assistant states attorney. While working at the law firm...to miss a meeting, because he was sure Northwestern Hospital would take it from Naperville...
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How Despised Backwoods Became a New Frontier
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 14, 2003
Subjects: Boone, Daniel
How despised backwoods became a new frontier. Byline: Evan Haefeli, SPECIAL...a new, distinctively American way of life. The authors fashion their account...an infusion of settlers from all over northwestern Europe into the hills and dales of the...and social development in the United States. Evan Haefeli is assistant professor...


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