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    Frontier Folk
    Frontier Folk
    Frontier Folk
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    Frontier Folk

    By George Booth

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Frontier Folk - George Booth

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Frontier Folk, by George Booth

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Frontier Folk

      Author: George Booth

      Release Date: August 17, 2011 [EBook #37110]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRONTIER FOLK ***

      Produced by Anna Hall and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      Frontier Folk.

      BY

      GEORGE BOOTH.

      REPRINTED FROM THE

      International Review for July, 1880.

      NEW YORK:

      A. S. BARNES AND COMPANY.

      Copyright, 1880,

      By A. S. Barnes and Company.

      FRONTIER FOLK.

      What do we mean by the frontier? And what, by frontier folk? The terms came into vogue when tolerably well-defined lines marked the onset of civilization at the far West, and all beyond was wilderness. Yet to-day, with settlements scattered over all the Territories, the phrase loses none of its significance. It still has a geographical import, and another, deeper than the geographical, suggesting a peculiar civilization and a certain characteristic mode of life. It does not bring to mind those prosperous colonies whose lands, surveyed, secured by good legal titles, and freed from danger of savage inroads, have a permanent population busily engaged in founding homes. It takes us rather to the boundaries of the Indian reservations, along which scattered camps and settlements of white men are fringed; to lands which, though legally open for settlement, are constantly menaced by Indians; to those strange, shifting communities which sometimes, like Jonah's gourd, spring up in a night only to wither away in a day.

      It is the purpose of this paper to present a sketch of the life and people of this frontier region as the writer has become familiar with them, depicting the types and manners of mankind, and leaving for more profound narrators the matters of statistical detail.

      Social estimation and intercourse on the frontier are based upon a very short acquaintance. A large and catholic charity presumes every man to be that which he desires to appear. To pry into the secret history of his former life, to pass hostile criticisms on it even when known to be discreditable, is not considered a public-spirited act; for those turbulent energies or uncontrolled passions which drove him out of eastern communities may prove of great service to that new country to

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