# Frontier Folk

Author: Booth, George

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37110

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Frontier+Folk+Booth&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

What do we mean by the frontier? And what, by frontier folk? The terms came into vogue when tolerably well-defined lines marked the onset of civilization at the far West, and all beyond was wilderness. Yet to-day, with settlements scattered over all the Territories, the phrase loses none of its significance. It still has a geographical import, and another, deeper than the geographical, suggesting a peculiar civilization and a certain characteristic mode of life. It does not bring to mind those prosperous colonies whose lands, surveyed, secured by good legal titles, and freed from danger of savage inroads, have a permanent population busily engaged in founding homes. It takes us rather to...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-folk-37110/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frontier-folk-37110/chapters/2/index.md)