Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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BUFFALO BILL'S great Wild West Show comes to Boston on the tenth for a stay of two weeks. The show will be given in as complete a form as it was presented at Chicago during the World's Fair. It presents the greatest series of accurate pictures of frontier life ever conceived and is veritably history related by the men who made...
...Customs Union would be inconvenient in case of war. (a) It would leave the frontier in a bad condition. (b) An immediate increase of revenue would be impossible...
Every winter these birds appear along the northern frontier of New England, but it is only at rare intervals that they come in numbers so far south as Boston, though a few may be found in suitable places almost every season. This year they first appeared about the first of November and +++ have represented them in large numbers over all of these northern states...
...Christmas Shadrach," by Frank R. Stockton; "A Christmas Fantasy, with a Moral," by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; "Wulfy; A Waif," a Christmas sketch from life by Miss Vida D. Scudder, and "The Rapture of Hetty," by Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote, the last dealing with a Christmas dance on the frontier, and a number of general articles. The poetry of the number is of a high order...
...cites several illustrations. Those who are inclined to take "a bout with the gloves" should not fail to read this paper, so replete with valuable instructions. The best story of the number is "Gert," a most delightful bit of fiction, whose plot is laid on the wilds of the frontier. The characters delineated are out of the ordinary run and are beyond the daily experiences of those even whose lot is cast in the least developed of our Western settlements...