Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veteran 21st Division and one regiment of the 9th Division were pulled out in April to relieve the forces at An Loc; five other regiments in the Delta have been assigned to guard the major infiltration route from Cambodia, where two North Vietnamese divisions are trying to cross the frontier into South Viet Nam. "If I can contain the enemy to the north," says Lieut. General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, 39, commander of Military Region IV (the Delta), "I will have no problem with the forces inside the country...
...fact is, under the direction of our United Methodist discipline, inactive members who do not withdraw voluntarily are being removed from the rolls. Oh yes sir, we are still leaping like a brushfire along the frontier of the 20th century, but this time we are burning up our own deadwood...
Whittled at, mocked, its history rewritten, the American West has taken a battering in recent years. The myth of the 19th century frontier-brave mule skinners and noble cavalrymen bringing civilization across the Great Plains-is dying out like the buffalo. This discovery, leaving a painful hole in America's stock of self-images, helps explain the recent surge of interest in 19th century frontier art. The latest evidence of it is a delightful show called "The American West," which drew crowds to the Los Angeles County Museum through the spring and will open June...
...chronicle every tribe, producing up to six oils a day. They vary greatly in quality, as one might expect. But at his best - as in Head Chief of the Iowas-Catlin's agile drawing combined with his near worship of Indian ways in images that, in later frontier art, could not be equaled for directness and compassion. Beginning as a pictorial journalist, he transcended his limits. Ironically, this was never true of the later genre painters whose work commands such inflated prices: Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. Their work has some historical interest - though contemporary photos have much...
Gold Rush. Lola never altogether recovered from the double loss of Dujarier and Bavaria. But at 35, after severe bouts of sickness and marriage, she rallied enough to join the California gold rush. She opened a frontier salon in a mining camp called Grass Valley and stocked it with Ludwig's jewels, Louis Seize cabinets, ormolu mirrors, Kanaka houseboys, a swan bed, a pet bear and every Senator, Governor or millionaire she could find. In the back of her mind, as letters discovered after her death made clear, was a plot to capture California from...