Uses many sources to portray the diversity of the American frontier of the 1800s.

Despite a half century of attempts by social scientists to compare frontiers around the world, the study of these regions is still closely associated with the n

"As entertaining as fiction." "Great Plains Quarterly" "A valuable account of everyday life." "Journal of Canadian Materials for Young People" First published m

On the Frontier of Adulthood reveals a startling new fact: adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. A lengthy period before adulthood, often spanning t