closing of the frontier

With the closing of the frontier, its role had changed from Indian fighting to peacetime garrison duty.

As with the closing of the frontier in the Wild West, there will be increasing pressure to regulate cyberspace."

The growth of cities, industrialization, and the closing of the frontier provided the necessary avenue for sports such as wrestling to increase in popularity.

When they're gone, everything will be gone ... This is the closing of the frontier."

Many of the most well-known of these conflicts occurred during and after the Civil War until the closing of the frontier in about 1890.

The story is set in the Western United States after the end of the Civil War but before the closing of the frontier.

Love's book does include two striking photographs of himself in Western regalia, but they were taken in a photographer's studio, long after the closing of the frontier.

But modernity, the birth of the corporation, the closing of the frontier and technological advances had reshaped America and rendered Jefferson's governing vision obsolete.

Instead, he was influenced by the Progressive Era; and changes in the American identity that accompanied the country's rapid urbanization, technological growth, industrialization, and the closing of the frontier.

As the novel sweeps from the 1890's to the 1940's, it touches on such vital themes as the closing of the frontier, the shift from agriculture to industry, immigration, environmentalism and feminism.

In the decade between the closing of the frontier and the invention of the World Series, a Penobscot Indian from Maine briefly electrified the American imagination playing for the Cleveland Spiders.

And while Turner defined the West as a process of settlement that came to an end with the "closing of the frontier" in the late 19th century, the new historians see the West as a region.

For all its talk about the closing of the frontier, it suggests that some of the conflicts of this classic genre, those between effeminacy and virility, between escape from the self and self-renewal, are still going on in the West today.

These included the increase in railroad lines, the invention and increasing usage of both the telephone and automobile, and further settlement leading to the "closing of the frontier", as described by renowned American Western historian Frederick Jackson Turner.

(Ages 4 to 8) WITH the closing of the frontier, the decline of western movies every Saturday afternoon at the Bijou and the evaporation of afternoon westerns on television, being a cowboy more and more comes down to wardrobe.

The "closing of the Frontier" identified by the 1890 Census report and publicized by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in his 1893 paper The Significance of the Frontier in American History, contributed to fears of constrained natural resource.

According to Di Tella and Zymelman (1967), the main difference between Argentina and other settler societies such as Australia and Canada was its failure to seek adequate alternatives to compensate for the end of geographical expansion with the definitive closing of the frontier.

One of the first efforts of director John Ford, who would chronicle the closing of the frontier for the rest of his life, this stars Harry Carey as an old-time badman released after a 20-year stretch into a bewildering world of Model T Fords and short skirts.

Frazier seems to be aiming to trace the course of American history across three centuries, from the 18th (Will mentions several times that he grew up among veterans of the Revolution), across the 19th and into the 20th, over well-trodden thematic turf: the end of the wilderness, the closing of the frontier, the loss of national innocence.