Frontier Village Research Articles

Drake, the Many-Sided Physician

sylvis nunciuswas the motto chosen by Daniel Drake in 1828 for theWestern Journal of Medical and Physical Sciences. Translatable as Messenger From the Backwoods, it accurately describes the man himself. He made known to the world that Cincinnati was emerging from a frontier settlement into an important focus of agricultural, mercantile, and cultural development. Fully as important as the message was the messenger, a citizen as well as a great physician. In 1800 Cincinnati was a frontier village of 750 people depending for survival on Fort Washington and its garrison. The Treaty of Greenville, by which the Indians had agreed to withdraw beyond a line a little west of Cincinnati, was only five years old. The economic devastation following the American Revolution had sent people west to start a new life. Of these a few were restless adventurers who craved a continuation of the stirring events of only

Living History: Simulating Everyday Life in Living Museums

LIVING HISTORY IS AN IDEA WELL KNOWN TO LAY HISTORIANS AND MUSEUM interpreters but seldom heard of in academia. It has taken form as a serious movement in Europe and North America, especially since World War II. Its supporters are numerous and mixed: John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Thor Heyerdah, James Deetz, and Alvin Toffler. Museums that use living history as a primary mode of interpretation number in the many hundreds, and their annual visitors number in the tens of millions. Living history has been used by archaeologists to measure the energy needed to pull a wooden moldboard plow on a 1770s Pennsylvania farm. It has helped folklorists rediscover how Pilgrims built their houses and brewed their beer in 1627 Plimoth, and it has provided historians with a method of communicating to contemporary Americans the network of social classes operating in an Indiana frontier village during the 1830s. Finally, living history has become a popular hobby for thousands of history buffs, many of whom made the long march to Yorktown in 1981 to commemorate the end of the American Revolution. By and large, living history has found greater expression in museums, research projects, and folk festivals than in scholarly articles. Thus, this essay must be more of an introduction to the movement's people, places, and ideas than a comprehensive bibliography.I The first part will briefly sketch the history of the movement and will be followed by three sections on the primary functions of living history research, interpretation, and

The Daguerreotype in San Francisco

Destined to become the most-photographed city in the American West, Yerba Buena, California Territory, was only a squalid frontier village at the time of Daguerre's electrifying announcement in 183...

One Type of Frontier Village in Ancient Japan

In Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate prefectures, so far as the author knows, there are 17 places named ‘Ho Hatcho’ which means eight cho square. The area covering these three prefectures used to be called Mutsu in ancient Japan as an eastern frontier of the country. In Yamagata and Akita prefectures which correspond to Dewa, a northern frontier of the same period, we do not find any ‘Ho Hatcho, ’ but quite a few sites named ‘Hatcho, ’ several of which are villages of the type similar to ‘Ho Hatcho.’ Neither ‘Ho Hatcho’ nor ‘Hatcho, ’ however, is to be seen in the most northern prefecture Aomori.Of the seventeen villages of the ‘Ho Hatcho’ type, eleven lie on the low land, three on the river terrace and three on the gently-sloping low upland. The basic form of the first eleven villages is described by their enclosures such as mounds, fences and trenches. The arable lands inside or outside these enclosures are considered to have been allotted on the grid pattern at intervals of one cho.I would regard the villages on the low land, therefore, as farm villages intentionally built for the purpose of cultivating the land. I also regard those on the upland as stations because they are scattered along traffic roads, and those on the river terrace as having had the function of a river port.From the later seventh century to the early ninth century, the Government sent many settlers to the frontiers from every part of the country.To cite the example of Izawa ‘gun’ which holds larger number of ‘Ho Hatcho’s than any other region, many of the ‘go’ names appearing within this ‘gun’ coincide with those of ‘kuni’ originally given to other parts of Japan, like Shinano ‘go’ corresponding to Shinano ‘kuni.’ The inhabitants of Izawa ‘gun’ are thus considered to have consisted of colonists from outside.The law enforced in the eighth century says, “Keep the people living on the frontier in a fort.” I think, for this reason, that it was in conformity with this law that the ‘Ho Hatcho’ plan was laid down.But the present Iwate prefecture, where villages of the ‘Ho Hatcho’ type are most found, is known to have come under Government control at the beginning of the ninth century. So it is my opinion that the villages of ‘Ho Hatcho’ type were actually established around that time.

City Planning under Mercantile Expansion: The Case of Cleveland, Ohio

Research Article| December 01 1951 City Planning under Mercantile Expansion: The Case of Cleveland, Ohio Edmund H. Chapman Edmund H. Chapman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1951) 10 (4): 10–17. https://doi.org/10.2307/987569 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Edmund H. Chapman; City Planning under Mercantile Expansion: The Case of Cleveland, Ohio. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 December 1951; 10 (4): 10–17. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/987569 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Charles DeMorse : pioneer editor and statesman

Exactly one hundred years ago a restless young man of twenty-six years travelled five hundred miles from the capital of the young Texas Republic to the frontier village of Clarksville and established there the first newspaper to appear in Northeast Texas. In his six years in Texas, that young man already had served as a member of President Mirabeau Lamar's official family, and had associated with Austin, Houston, Burnet, Hemphill, Rusk, and others whose names were closely connected with Texas history during the early days of the republic. His acquaintances and his experiences colored his newspaper. The young man was Charles DeMorse; the newspaper he founded was the Northern Standard. DeMorse and his newspaper became one and inseparable in the minds of Texans. Both became a part of Texas, and Texas is what she is today in part because of them. Theirs was a great period in the history of Texas--Texas in the making--, and DeMorse and the Standard were builders. No one service of DeMorse has great magnitude, but the myriad of services which he performed should place him among those whose life's records, so closely interwoven with that of the history of Texas, should be preserved. His most important service was as a journalist, but as a statesman he ranks high. His statesmanship, however, is to a great extent the result of his journalistic abilities. DeMorse lived at a time when the editor was a person of no little importance in molding public opinion. More than a half century has passed since the death of DeMorse and his newspaper. Although the Standard has become a source for the study of Texas for the period to which it belonged, no one has attempted a study of the Father of Texas Journalism and his role as a pioneer journalist and statesman. Meanwhile, the need for such a study has become more and more apparent. The study of the Standard is secondary to that of DeMorse. The issues selected for study are chosen because of their major importance in the minds of the editor and the people of the state, and because they reveal DeMorse in a true perspective against the background of his time.

The Bain Boulder-bed: a Glacial Episode in the Siwalik Series of the Marwat Kundi Range and Shekh Budin, North-West Frontier Province, India

In October 1934, at the western end of the trans-Indus continuation of the Salt Range of North-West India, extensive outcrops of a deposit possessing all the characteristics of a typical boulder-clay were discovered in the middle of the strongly folded and faulted Siwalik series of the Marwat Kundi hills and on the northern slopes of Shekh Budin. The boulder-clay was named the Bain Boulder-bed, after the frontier village nearest to its most conveniently accessible outcrop alongside the frontier road from Bannu to Tank, through the Bain pass. The occurrence of a glacial deposit in this area and at such an horizon was totally unexpected. Successive studies of Siwalik faunas, made since Falconer's pioneer work, have raised progressively the age of the Siwalik series in terms of the European and American time-scales, but no dating later than Middle Pliocene had been suggested for the thick sandy formation in which the Bain Boulder-bed occurs; neither is there any record of evidence of glacial conditions during the deposition of the Siwalik series (Colbert 1935, p. 11). Prior to the discovery of the Bain Boulder-bed, the age of the formation enclosing it had been regarded as Upper Miocene, following Pilgrim (1913), or Middle Pliocene, following Matthew (1929). The nearest place to Shekh Budin at which fossils had been collected from the formation was the type locality of Pilgrim's Nagri fauna (1913, pp. 267, 318). That fauna lies in the lower portion of the Nagri outcrop cis-Indus, about 100 miles from Shekh Budin. From Nagri