Frontiersman
Frontiersmen and frontierswomen are people living on the frontier between settled and unsettled lands. The frontier was a place between civilization and the unknown wilderness.[1] Frontiersmen often cleared the land, built shelters, raised children, and grew crops.[2] Hunting and animal trapping were prime sources of meat.[3] Animal furs and skins were made into clothing. Famous American frontiersmen include Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and Kit Carson.[4] The United States, Canada, and Australia are countries In which frontiersmen and women have been found in large numbers.
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A restored pioneer house at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas.
Australian bushman with his dog and horse, c. 1910
Lampião's outlaw band, wearing traditional sertanejo attire. The mythology built on the image of cangaceiros defines Brazil's view of the Sertão as a frontier.
Brazilian regions with significant caipira cultural imprint in green, roughly corresponding with the areas that saw Bandeirante activity.
Posse da Amazônia, by Fernandes Machado (1924). Represents Pedro Teixeira taking possession of the Amazon for the Portuguese Empire.
Brasília. The concept of a centralized capital located in the interior of Brazil to secure the frontier had been proposed since colonial times.
De facto Spanish territories and indigenous territories around 1800. Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is shown in blue while the Captaincy General of Chile is shown in green.
Chilean huasos, 1836, by Johann Moritz Rugendas
Mormon pioneers crossing the Mississippi in February 1846
References
- ↑ Tim McNeese, American Frontier (St. Louis, Mo.: Milliken Publishing Co., 2002), p. 2
- ↑ Tim McNeese, American Frontier (St. Louis, Mo.: Milliken Publishing Co., 2002), p. 20
- ↑ John C. Weaver, Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 (Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003), p. 106
- ↑ Objects of Special Devotion: Fetishism in Popular Culture, ed. Ray Broadus Browne (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1982), p. 155
