Search Results - "frontier"

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    From the fallen tree frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / by Hallock, Thomas

    Published 2003
    Subjects: “…Frontier and pioneer life United States Historiography.…”
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    From the fallen tree frontier narratives, environmental politics, and the roots of a national pastoral, 1749-1826 / by Hallock, Thomas

    Published 2003
    Subjects: “…Frontier and pioneer life United States Historiography.…”
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    In and out of Morocco smuggling and migration in a frontier boomtown / by McMurray, David A.

    Published 2001
    “…In & out of Morocco : smuggling and migration in a frontier boomtown…”
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    Fermilab physics, the frontier, and megascience / by Hoddeson, Lillian

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…The call of the frontier -- An American dream -- The several hundred GeV accelerator, 1959-1963 -- The Berkeley design, 1963-1965 -- Midwest passage, 1965-1967 -- A new frontier on the Illinois prairie -- Wilson's vision -- Constructing the ring, 1968-1972 -- A user's paradise, 1968-1978 -- Beyond the horizon : the energy doubler, 1967-1978 -- The road to megascience -- Lederman's vision -- Completing the doubler, 1978-1984 -- Bigger science : experiment strings, 1970-1988 -- Megascience realized : colliding beams, 1967-1989 -- The super collider affair -- Epilogue: Light on the horizon, 1989-1995 -- Authors' statements and other acknowledgements -- Appendix: Fermilab experiments, 1970-1992.…”
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    Wild Yankees the struggle for independence along Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier / by Moyer, Paul Benjamin, 1970-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a farmer's revolution -- "Among quarrelsome Yankees, insidious Indians, and lonely wilds" : natives, colonists, and the Wyoming controversy -- "A great many wrangling disputes" : authority, allegiance, property, and the frontier war for independence -- "A dangerous combination of villains" : the social context of agrarian resistance -- "All the difficulties of forming a new settlement" : frontier migration, land speculation, and settler insurgency -- "A perfect union with the people" : cultures of resistance along the revolutionary frontier -- "Poor and ignorant but industrious settlers" : frontier development and the path to accommodation -- "Artful deceivers" : Yankee notables and the resolution of the Wyoming controversy -- Epilogue : closing the revolutionary frontier.…”
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    Wanton West madams, money, murder, and the wild women of Montana's frontier / by Morgan, Lael

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sinful cities, 1863-1919 -- Prologue: Madeleine : a self-made woman, 1894 -- The summer women of Helena, 1867 -- Butte, the black heart of Montana, 1877 -- Miles City and the Wild West, 1880 -- Last of the silver years, 1887 -- The celestial sex trade, 1900 -- Respectable purple paths, 1900 -- Reflection, 1900 -- The beginning of the end, 1911 -- New options, 1916 -- Epilogue: The wages of sin -- Major players: The women and men who made the most of a wild frontier -- Time line: From the brothels to the Congress.…”
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