Word: frontierisms
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Crowded up against Portugal's frontier last week by the troops of Spain's Revolution were portions of Spain's Government forces hard-pressed and cut off from Madrid. When some of these skipped over the frontier into Portugal, they were harshly driven back to be slaughtered. Perhaps they would have fared less hard had not the Lisbon Cabinet of Portuguese President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona just received assurances that Great Britain will come with culverins "in case of need...
...received eight dollars apiece at British headquarters at Niagara. The farmers who made up the U. S. militia hurried home after each victory or defeat, since they had to get on with the crops between battles. Now & then detachments of the regular Continental Army marched in to defend the frontier, seemed always to arrive when they were not needed, to leave just before they were. After six years of intermittent hostilities, the 2,500 men on the militia rolls of the Mohawk Valley had been reduced to less than 800, although only two major battles had been fought and both...
Last week these hard years in Mohawk history provided the background for a 592-page historical novel that, unlike most such volumes, was most interesting for its accounts of the unconventional military maneuvers of savages and settlers, least impressive in its pictures of frontier romance. The August choice of the Book-of-the-Month-Club, Drums Along the Mohawk belongs in the imposingly conscientious series of novels (Erie Water, Rome Haul, The Big Barn) that covers New York history from 1776 to 1865. It begins with a long description of the labors of Gilbert and Lana Martin in establishing their...
...They Died with Their Boots On (TIME, July 29, 1935), Wayne Card's life of Sam Bass is least interesting in those sections where the central figure is built up as a bold and exceptional individual, most vivid in its account of political and social struggles on the frontier...
...American democracy is to be preserved, the American people must know what is involved in democracy. They are too much inclined to identify democracy with political institutions. Historically this interpretation is inaccurate. The American people in the days of the frontier and simple agrarian life achieved a rough economic democracy long before they achieved political democracy...