Kelly Library Of St. Gregory's University; Thanks To Alev Akman.
THE PASSING OF THE FRONTIER, A CHRONICLE OF THE OLD WEST
BY EMERSON HOUGH
New Haven: Yale University Press
Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.
London: Humphrey Milford
Oxford University Press
1918
CONTENTS
I. THE FRONTIER IN HISTORY
II. THE RANGE
III. THE CATTLE TRAILS
IV. THE COWBOY
V. THE MINES
VI. PATHWAYS OF THE WEST
VII. THE INDIAN WARS
VIII. THE CATTLE KINGS
IX. THE HOMESTEADER
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
THE PASSING OF THE FRONTIER
Chapter I. The Frontier In History
The frontier! There is no word in the English language more
stirring, more intimate, or more beloved. It has in it all the
elan of the old French phrase, En avant! It carries all of the
old Saxon command, Forward!! It means all that America ever
meant. It means the old hope of a real personal liberty, and yet
a real human advance in character and achievement. To a genuine
American it is the dearest word in all the world.
What is, or was, the frontier? Where was it? Under what stars did
it lie? Because, as the vague Iliads of ancient heroes or the
nebulous records of the savage gentlemen of the Middle Ages make
small specific impingement on our consciousness today, so also
even now begin the tales of our own old frontier to assume a
haziness, an unreality, which makes them seem less history than
folklore.
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