William Bleasdell Cameron: A Life of Writing and Adventure

Cameron, William Bleasdell, 1862-1951; Frontier and pioneer life-Northwest, Canadian; Northwest, Canadian-History-1870-1905; Journalists-Northwest, Canadian-Biograph

Imagining the Canadian Agrarian Landscape: Prairie Settler Life Writing as Colonial Discourse

 Focusing on southern Alberta, my paper discusses the power of settler life writing to replace Indigenous conceptions of the prairies with colonial visions. Pioneer memoirs promote myths of the prairie as a fertile utopian environment or as a hostile frontier. By accentuating their labour and their social status, pioneer life writers support their claims of entitlement to colonize land.

Quilters (Revival)

In the American West, a pioneer woman, Sarah, and six women, who are called her daughters, face frontier life. Rather than a straightforward story line, the musical is presented as a series of short tales and tableaux matched with musical numbers, each presenting an aspect of frontier life or womanhood. The patches or blocks show girlhood, marriage, childbirth, spinsterhood, twisters, fire, illness and death. [9] The patches are ultimately put together to form one dramatic tableau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilters_(musical)https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/summer_production_1989/1000/thumbnail.jp

Quilters

In the American West, a pioneer woman, Sarah, and six women, who are called her daughters, face frontier life. Rather than a straightforward story line, the musical is presented as a series of short tales and tableaux matched with musical numbers, each presenting an aspect of frontier life or womanhood. The patches or blocks show girlhood, marriage, childbirth, spinsterhood, twisters, fire, illness and death. [9] The patches are ultimately put together to form one dramatic tableau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilters_(musical)https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_1988-1989/1004/thumbnail.jp

The spiritual mentality profile of female pietists on the South African frontier, 1750-1860

The reading of female religious literature on the South African frontier allows us to reconstruct important elements of a shared religious mentality profile of these pioneer female believers. Such a reconstruction of the religious mentality profile of pietistic women on the frontier reveals a number of important aspects for understanding their spiritual life: self-awakenings and conversions; self-purification; self-illumination and mystically tainted experiences; recollection and the experience of quiet; meditation, contemplation, ecstasy and rapture; spiritual desertion, and abandonment of the soul and the unitive life with God in Christ

Literature of pioneer life in Iowa, 1923

Contains history and a bibliography of books and pamphlets written about frontier and pioneer life in the midwest

The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730–1830

The Allegheny frontier, comprising the mountainous area of present-day West Virginia and bordering states, is studied here in a broad context of frontier history and national development. The region was significant in the great American westward movement, but Otis K. Rice seeks also to call attention to the impact of the frontier experience upon the later history of the Allegheny Highlands. He sees a relationship between its prolonged frontier experience and the problems of Appalachia in the twentieth century. Through an intensive study of the social, economic, and political developments in pioneer West Virginia, Rice shows that during the period 1730–1830 some of the most significant features of West Virginia life and thought were established. There also appeared evidences of arrested development, which contrasted sharply with the expansiveness, ebullience, and optimism commonly associated with the American frontier. In this period customs, manners, and folkways associated with the conquest of the wilderness to root and became characteristic of the mountainous region well into the twentieth century. During this pioneer period, problems also took root that continue to be associated with the region, such as poverty, poor infrastructure, lack of economic development, and problematic education. Since the West Virginia frontier played an important role in the westward thrust of migration through the Alleghenies, Rice also provides some account of the role of West Virginia in the French and Indian War, eighteenth-century land speculations, the Revolutionary War, and national events after the establishment of the federal government in 1789. Otis K. Rice is professor of history and chairman of the department at West Virginia Institute of Technology.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/1078/thumbnail.jp

Women’s Rhetorical Agency in the American West: \u3ci\u3eThe New Penelope\u3c/i\u3e

This essay theorizes women’s rhetorical agency in the nineteenth-century American West. Contrast between fluid gender norms in frontier life and the Cult of True Womanhood highlights how agency is confined by materiality. Agency is the capacity to recognize and act in moments when material structures are vulnerable to resignification. I offer an analysis of Frances Fuller Victor’s novella The New Penelope to demonstrate how pioneer women writers reinvented womanhood in light of socioeconomic changes

John Wesley Hunt: Pioneer Merchant, Manufacturer and Financier

When John Wesley Hunt came to Kentucky in 1794, his plan was to open a general store in Lexington. A canny judge of business opportunity, he soon expanded his activities and became one of the responsible figures of Kentucky banking and finance. In another kind of venture, he imported fine stallions from the East, significantly improving the bloodlines of thoroughbreds and trotters in the Bluegrass. John Wesley Hunt tells the story of Hunt’s business exploits against the background of life in frontier Lexington. James A. Ramage reveals how his innovative solutions to the financial problems of the frontier gave rise to the prosperity and culture of Lexington in the nineteenth century James A. Ramage, Regents Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University, is the author of John Wesley Hunt: Pioneer Merchant, Manufacturer, and Financier and Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/1034/thumbnail.jp

Chronicles of Oklahoma

Article provides a review of Oklahoma literature, including and describing major sources that relate the history of pioneer and frontier life, tribes of early Oklahoma, and politics in the region