...This chapter explores the links between domestic hospitality and religious devotion in the frontier settlements of the Old Northwest. While Mormons and Shakers found strength in the shared residence of their exclusive spiritual families, domestic worship allowed Protestants and Catholics to utilize...

... of Americans. Her strengths as a speaker and the depth of her commitments to women's causes were put to the test here, but she toughed it out as a true daughter of the frontier. Anthony Susan B Blackwell Henry Catt Carrie Lane Chapman citizenship equal South Dakota American Woman Suffrage Association...

...This chapter discusses the emergence of a temperance movement in Minnesota during the period 1819–1865. It goes back to Minnesota's preterritorial beginnings where the story about “the Jug of Empire” began to unfold. It first looks at the founding of the frontier settlement that would later become...

... in symbolic and literal borderlands—as an educated professional in a time when few went to college, as an African American who made waves when most feared violent reprisal, and as someone living on the mythical American frontier as well as an international boundary. A powerful addition to the literature...

...This chapter discusses the Illinois Territory, which was one of the frontier regions affected by war. Only recently split off from Indiana Territory in 1809, the new territory ran from the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers north to the U.S. border with Canada, embracing the current states...

... on the frontier, the resettlement of immigrant Indians from the East, and the development of antebellum society in the diverse terrain of the Ozark uplift. Above all The Old Ozarks follows a narrative approach that focuses on the people whose activities and ambitions brought life to the region...

...This chapter asks how an ordinary Quaker not involved in the abolition campaign might have considered the matter of slavery and answers this by reading the memoir of Charles Pancoast, A Quaker Forty-Niner: The Adventures of Charles Edward Pancoast on the American Frontier. Pancoast...

...This chapter talks about the meeting of two former enemies—Robert Dickson and Thomas Forsyth—in Saint Louis after the war had ended. During a cordial evening, the two talked over their exploits during the war. Dickson was one of the most colorful figures on the frontier; the Indians idolized him...

..., Stanwyck’s characters do not get old and tired like her male counterparts facing a closed frontier but instead exhibit a new kind of energy in a West that is exposed as misogynist, racist, and corrupt. Mann’s psychological western is compared to Fuller’s campy modernist western, to underscore the way...

... States frontier as a space of smallholder independence, the society that was created was aristocratic and defined by exploitation, a theme carried forward through the rest of the book. Appalachia Cherokee First People stereotypes Bear Lick Valley pseudonym class Appalachian poverty coal commuter...

... of life and death on the Maine frontier provide a window into the cultural identity of the northeast borderland region. Northern Maine, like western states where vigilante justice was frequent, was a frontier region, and one theory of nonracial lynchings suggests that this was a recourse where legal...

...This chapter argues that what Jencks learned as a result of exploration was the hard lesson that his region had been the site of sharp labor-management confrontation in the rugged mining districts of frontier Colorado. As his awareness of historical inequities sharpened, the trajectory of what...