Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915 pioneer adaptation and community building : an anthropological history - Bennett, John W., (John William) (University of Nebraska Press, 1995)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-289) and index
Ch. 1. Locale and Approach -- Ch. 2. Settlement and Environment in the Canadian-American West -- Ch. 3. Settlement Patterns and Ethnicity -- Ch. 4. Setting Out: Emigration as a Social Process -- Ch. 5. Starting Off: Interactive Adaptation on the Homestead Frontier -- Ch. 6. Settling In: Family and Household in the Homesteading Experience -- Ch. 7. Growing Up: Memories of Childhood -- Ch. 8. Coming Together: The Formation of the Homestead Frontier Community -- Ch. 9. Institutions and Services: The Postfrontier Community -- Ch. 10. Women's Organizations: From Country District to Nation -- Ch. 11. Rudyard: A Railroad-Homestead Town as Seen by Contemporaries -- Ch. 12. Lives: Town Builders -- Ch. 13. Lives: Country Men and Women -- Ch. 14. Political Aftermath
This "anthropological history" tells the story of homesteading and community organization in the Canadian-American West through personal reminiscences and locally written histories. John W. Bennett and Seena B. Kohl interpret those stories through the lenses of history and social science, and they present a view of settlement experience as one phase of the evolving postfrontier society and culture of western North America