Word: frontierisms
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...bloodstained boundary between Haiti and the Dominican Republic was threatened with bloodshed again. According to persistent reports, "incidents" along the frontier were approaching a state of undeclared war. Said one Dominican exile in a nearby country: "Not a day passes without some Haitian being murdered in the Dominican Republic." Said a Haitian official: "I expect there will be a war within two or three months...
...autobiography. Fighting Liberal is not a great book. His heroic battles in Congress were no longer vivid in its old (83), tired author's mind. Like many another old man, George Norris at the end was reliving his youth. As the story of a boyhood in the frontier, post-Civil War Midwest, Fighting Liberal is authentic Americana...
...Frontier Mother. George Norris' father was a farmer living in the "Black Swamp" country of northern Ohio. George was only three when his father died. But he remembered his mother well. In his recollection of her, Mary Magdalene Norris emerges as the archetype of frontier woman...
First Cavalry. The history of the U.S. frontier is written into the record of the ist Cavalry. Its 8th Regiment was organized in 1866; part of its 7th died with Custer at Little Big Horn. For years, stationed at the century-old post of Fort Bliss, most of the ist Cavalry patrolled the Rio Grande. But the time the old noncoms remember most bitterly was the more recent one when they lost their horses...
Henry Charles Lytton was busy at his first job, in a dry goods store in his native New York City, before the Civil War was two years old. Three years later, he went off to the frontier in Michigan, opened a store which he ran for 15 years before he went broke...