A cowboy, with one hand on a rein and the other in the air, hangs on with all his might as a horse jumps, kicks and tries to fling him off of his back. Both sport and spectacle, the rodeo has become ...

In a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear these significant words: “Up to and including 1889 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area ...

Absorbing its Western frontier gave 19th century America a core task. In 1890 the Census Bureau, which tracked frontier settlement, declared the job done. Yet the American frontier persists, its needs ...