Share the Frontier Spirit
Author | : Norhtern Frontier Visitors Associaton |
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Release | : 199? |
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Author | : Norhtern Frontier Visitors Associaton |
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Author | : Jennifer Duncan |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2010-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385672462 |
She may have been holding a gun, or an axe, or her hiked-up skirts, but she was there, in the Klondike of the Gold Rush. And her decision to venture everything on the dream of northern gold was in every way bolder and riskier than any man’s. In Frontier Spirit, Jennifer Duncan celebrates the lives of women who, in defiance of traditional expectations, left their homes, their families, and their professions, to make the arduous journey through a punishing climate and unfamiliar wilderness to seek their fortunes in the Klondike. The story of women in the Klondike begins with the strong and knowledgeable women who were there before the race for riches began -- First Nations women like Shaaw Tláa, whose experience and traditional skills were critical to the survival of her white prospector husband, and ultimately, to the discovery that sparked the Gold Rush. The white women who joined the Klondike Stampede came from all walks of life: rich and poor, educated and illiterate, single and married. Wealthy socialite Martha Black left her world of comfort to pursue a career as a miner, mill manager, and politician on the northern frontier. Belinda Mulrooney, an Irish farm girl, arrived in Dawson with a quarter to her name but used her business acumen and canny resourcefulness to turn the shantytown into a city and herself into its richest woman. And then there’s Kate Rockwell, a working-class girl from Kansas City, whose thirst for fame and adulation led her over the treacherous waters of the Whitehorse rapids and fired her ascent to the title of Queen of the Klondike. Duncan has spent the last five years experiencing Dawson City in all its seasons and, like the women who came before her, she has fallen under the spell of the North, coming to love its wilderness, its challenges, and its rugged glory. With remarkable empathy, imagination and personal insight, Duncan creates an engrossing portrait of the splendour of the Yukon, breathing life into the stories of the daring and diverse women of the Klondike and the grandeur of the adventurers who gambled everything to find their fortunes there.
Author | : Margaret Barrow Fisher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 1984-01-01 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | : 9780934996242 |
Author | : Peter George Mode |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Christianity |
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Author | : Frank Hammond Tucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 9780882297576 |
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Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Northern Frontier Country (N.W.T.) |
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Author | : Jose S. Buenconsejo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1136719806 |
This book investigates the particular history and social experience by a marginalized society in Mindanao Island, Philippines, through an analysis of the speech, song and dance in spirit possession ritual. Using the concepts of exchange and reciprocity, Buenconsejo connects the performativity of ritual song to the formation and maintenance of sociability, personhood and subjectivity. Also inlcludes maps.
Author | : Frederick Jackson Turner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2021-02-08 |
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Behind institutions, behind constitutional forms and modifications, lie the vital forces that call these organs into life and shape them to meet changing conditions. The peculiarity of American institutions is, the fact that they have been compelled to adapt themselves to the changes of an expanding people to the changes involved in crossing a continent, in winning a wilderness, and in developing at each area of this progress out of the primitive economic and political conditions of the frontier into the complexity of city life. Said Calhoun in 1817, "We are great, and rapidly I was about to say fearfully growing!" So saying, he touched the distinguishing feature of American life. All peoples show development; the germ theory of politics has been sufficiently emphasized. In the case of most nations, however, the development has occurred in a limited area; and if the nation has expanded, it has met other growing peoples whom it has conquered. But in the case of the United States we have a different phenomenon.
Author | : Richard Wilkinson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2011-05-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1608193411 |
It is common knowledge that, in rich societies, the poor have worse health and suffer more from almost every social problem. This book explains why inequality is the most serious problem societies face today.
Author | : Leah Ceccarelli |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 087013034X |
“The frontier of science” is a metaphor that has become ubiquitous in American rhetoric, from its first appearance in the public address of early twentieth-century American intellectuals and politicians who aligned a mythic national identity with scientific research, to its more recent use in scientists’ arguments in favor of increased research funding. Here, Leah Ceccarelli explores what is selected and what is deflected when this metaphor is deployed, its effects on those who use it, and what rhetorical moves are made by those who try to counter its appeal. In her research, Ceccarelli discovers that “the frontier of science” evokes a scientist who is typically male, a risk taker, an adventurous loner—someone separated from a public that both envies and distrusts him, with a manifest destiny to penetrate the unknown. It conjures a competitive desire to claim the riches of a new territory before others can do the same. Closely reading the public address of scientists and politicians and the reception of their audiences, this book shows how the frontier of science metaphor constrains American speakers, helping to guide the ends of scientific research in particular ways and sometimes blocking scientists from attaining the very goals they set out to achieve.