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A photo collection of life on the American frontier in the late 19th century.http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/02/23/from-the-archive-frontier-life-in-the-west/2713/
Very nice. I liked the pictures of Indians and Military the best. My Great-Grandfather was in the 8th Cavalry in the 1890's and fought in the last skirmishes of the Indian Wars.
Yeah, this was a good collection. Even a photograph like #33, #37, and #41 caught my eye, in which the buildings are so finely crafted even though they're probably out in the middle of nowhere near some mining town. Nice craftsmanship put into them.In photo #50, I'm interested in knowing exactly how that lumber gets thrown up into the air so high.
Outstanding pics! I found myself longing to be alive then. I grow weary of our modern society with its complications and stress. Just give me a Tee Pee out on the Plains out in the middle of nowhere and I could go dancing with wolves. LOL
More outstanding pics available here! 😮http://www.google.be/images?hl=fr&q=usa+mexico+borders&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&sa=X&ei=0riMTfrUNZSIhQe1qpyuCw&ved=0CE8QsAQ&biw=1360&bih=664
I was thinking it was a joke.... ???
I think it was really a joke Phidippides. ::)
A frontier is a frontier ... 😉
A frontier is a frontier ... 😉
Frontier, "The Frontier", has another meaning in the US: during the 19th century, the American settlers thought of the frontier not as a marked border but as the place where civilization dwindled away and wilderness began. and NOT as a fortified boundary line running through dense populations.Commonly regarded as the area where the settled portions of civilization meet the untamed wilderness, the frontier has persisted in American history as a topic of profound importance and intense debate. The conceptualization of the frontier has shifted greatly over time, evolving from older concepts that treated the frontier as a line of demarcation separating civilization from savagery to more modern considerations that treat the frontier as a zone of interaction and exchange between differing cultures. While numerous conceptualizations of the frontier contend for acceptance by the American public, all agree that the frontier occupies an influential position in the story of the American past.http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=PSM140&cf=n&type=4&id=N970
