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... frontiersman was not a small , in- dividualist farmer , tilling his own soil with the help of his family and perhaps a hired hand or two at harvest time . Indeed he usually had no family and scorned agricultural pursuits . It is true ...
... frontiersman was not a small , in- dividualist farmer , tilling his own soil with the help of his family and perhaps a hired hand or two at harvest time . Indeed he usually had no family and scorned agricultural pursuits . It is true ...
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... frontiersman , around whom there clings an aura of high romance , in Turner's writings scarcely less than in those of Fenimore Cooper and his legions of successors . As mechanization and urbanization proceeded in Western Europe and ...
... frontiersman , around whom there clings an aura of high romance , in Turner's writings scarcely less than in those of Fenimore Cooper and his legions of successors . As mechanization and urbanization proceeded in Western Europe and ...
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... frontiersman in this light . We have seen that he was not alone in this . It is significant that , like Paterson who did so much to popularize the idea of the noble frontiersman in Australia , he was a fervent admirer of Kipling , the ...
... frontiersman in this light . We have seen that he was not alone in this . It is significant that , like Paterson who did so much to popularize the idea of the noble frontiersman in Australia , he was a fervent admirer of Kipling , the ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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