Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years in the French artillery, worked in various laboratories in France and England. In 1932 he joined Eldorado Mines, supervising the transportation and installation of all equipment for the Canadian refining plant. Marcel Pochon speaks fairly good English with a strong accent, wears modish clothes, tells humorous frontier anecdotes with a grave face...
...last week the North American wheat harvest rolled into the red-gold acres of Montana, South Dakota and Minnesota. Northward away from the declining sun the harvest will sweep until the snow flies around the threshing machines in Canada's Peace River district on the Arctic's frontier. Through vast areas of Canada's Prairie Provinces the harvest's conglomerate followers will pass swiftly, for those flat lands have been seared by drought, wasted by rust until the Dominion has resigned itself to the lightest wheat crop in modern years...
...heard in the Conococheague Valley either. The Black Boys were beating the Indians at their own game. In the Spring Smith's men joined the British regulars under Colonel Bouquet for a finish fight in the Ohio country. Three companies of regulars were left behind to protect frontier homes. When Smith's men came back 18 months later it was to discover that many a home had been raided while the rear guard was wintering snugly in Philadelphia to ease the nerves of unendangered Philadelphians. Among frontier settlers, confidence in British government reached...
...attack. The Black Boys blazed away all night, then slipped away and waited to intercept any messengers sent out. After more than 16 had been collected the commandant accepted an exchange of prisoners. The authorities called for court-martials but quieted down when it was learned that the whole frontier was in cahoots with the Black Boys...
...proposed to General Washington that a battalion of frontiersmen be recruited to fight Indian style. On the grounds that it would look undignified to have white men fighting camouflaged as Indians, Washington refused. Smith, who by this time "entertained no high opinion of the colonel," went back to the frontier. Still hale at 74, the old Indian fighter stormed because he was not allowed to enlist in the War of 1812. Finally he set off alone to join the army at Detroit, turned back only when news of the Americans' easy surrender there convinced him that the army...