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The Last Frontier

by Ted Conover,

Homesteaders on the margins of America

The Last Frontier

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Ted Conover

Range life: the not entirely romantic existence of homesteaders in the San Luis Valley

The Monument Wars

by Rebecca Solnit,

For years, whenever I was in New Orleans, I used to run past an equestrian statue just outside the voluptuously green City Park. Though it is situated at a major…

Untitled

by Alexis de Tocqueville,

Jonathan Dyer, frontiersman

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

A paragraph in the history of the West

The efficiency of lightning

by Harper’s Staff,

The-man-that-draws-the-handcart

by Edward Eggleston,

Nathaniel J. Wyeth, and the struggle for Oregon

by John A. (John Allan) Wyeth,

The Kentucky pioneers

by John Mason Brown,

The earliest settlement in Ohio

by Alfred Mathews,

Experience of N.G. Reynolds and family in 1835

by Amanda Reynolds Smith,

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The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier

The Monument Wars

Untitled

Jonathan Dyer, frontiersman

The efficiency of lightning

The-man-that-draws-the-handcart

Nathaniel J. Wyeth, and the struggle for Oregon

The Kentucky pioneers

The earliest settlement in Ohio

Experience of N.G. Reynolds and family in 1835

February 1883

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