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Man's evolution has been importantly shaped by the frontiers he has encountered as he moved across the world. The frontiers shaped him, but also he defined those frontiers and, for good or ill, thereby transformed the natural world and his own place in it. These volumes examine the way Frederick Jackson Turner's theory of the frontier is applied to its cultural, economic, political, and social development.
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This is a comparative study of the social history and mythology of cowboy culture right across the Western Hemisphere, from Patagonia to the Yukon, including the unique cowboys of the Hawaiian cattle industry. Slatta argues that Spanish influence, neglected in most accepted historiography, is primary in all open-range cattle frontiers of North and South America. His focus is on people, working ranch hands, and how they lived their lives, quoting frequently...
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