Word: frontiersman
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First in Wyoming. The 1960s were not the first time in American history that civil rights and feminism were linked. Early American woman was conventionally seen, and conventionally saw herself, as the frontiersman's helpmeet in building the new nation -wife and mother of pioneers. It was the Abolitionist movement before the Civil War that helped get American feminism under way. In working against slavery, women emerged as a political force. The 1848 Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y., was the first of several to demand the vote, equal opportunity in jobs and education...
...Jackson and his teen-age son George went to Los Angeles in 1956, they were attempting to effect a traditional American escape. At the time, it is doubtful that either knew any more about the place to which he was going than had the 19th Century fugitive slave or frontiersman, but both Jacksons knew well where they had been...
...many different things during his life (or he does none of them or he does some of them or he dreams them all up), and each thing he does is different from the next. Indeed he tries to take advantage of each and every alternative available to the American frontiersman. Things you or I could do, have done: Make money, go West, get drunk, find God, make love, kill...
...Wild Bunch realized that the days of living by their guns were "passing fast," and aging Frontier Marshal Steve Judd was greeted with derisive hoots as he rode down the main street of a booming little Western town at the opening of Ride the High Country. Cable is a frontiersman at heart, with no love for cities or their inhabitants. It shames him to admit he cannot spell his name, and he has no notion of what collateral is. But such men were the essence of the new country, and Cable's ever-prospering water hole becomes a symbol...
Cable dies as must have been preordained: a motorcar starts rolling down a sandhill and the frontiersman, dealing with the machine as if it were an unruly stallion, is run down by progress. It is a measure of Peckinpah's great skill that he makes such a mechanical symbolic device not only work but seem perfectly fitting and inevitable...