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In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortable bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before he returned to France in 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of adventure and hardship—perilous journeys, railroad construction in the Rockies, panning for gold in swift-flowing streams, transporting goods for the Hudson’s Bay Company along the Athabasca River. Blessed with the rare gift of a natural storyteller, Maturié conveys his abiding nostalgia for a country he loved deeply yet ultimately had to abandon.Maturié’s memoir, Man Proposes, God Disposes, appeared in France in 1972, to a warm reception. Now, in the deft and marvellously empathetic translation of Vivien Bosley, it is at long last available in English. As a portrait of pioneer life in northern Alberta, as a window onto the French experience in Canada, and, above all, as an irresistible story—it will continue to find a place in the hearts of readers for years to come.

Frontier and pioneer life --- Pioneers --- Maturié, Pierre. --- Athabasca River Region (Alta.) --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- History --- memoir --- francophone --- homesteading --- Northern Alberta

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Writing his full-length reminiscence in a lonely Adirondack cabin during the winter of 1891-92, Henry Conklin recounts the first thirteen years of his life on a farm in Schoharie County, his young manhood in Herkimer County, and his service in the Civil War. The story is one of a hardscrabble life, of farming on marginal land and struggling each day for necessary food and clothing. And yet Conklin asserts that these years were the happiest he knew. The Conklin family was close-knit, loving, and self-sufficient. They built their home, made their own clothing, and grew much of their food. Everyone contributed his or her share to the good of the family group. In this vivid portrayal of family life, we read about ordinary events that are unfamiliar to us today – weaving cloth, churning butter, making shingles, starting a fire with flint and steel, setting traps – and about the technology of the nineteenth century. With insight, humility, and a perspective gained through distance and time, Henry Conklin gives us a dramatic and moving narrative in which we become deeply involved. In telling his story, Conklin is not only reliving the past but also saving the events, experiences, and persons of his life from oblivion, and contributing to our historical knowledge of the rural backwaters of antebellum America. Conklin’s reminiscence was preserved by his son and then by his grandson Roy Conklin, who brought it to the attention of Wendell Tripp. Several engravings supplement the text, and the editor has provided footnotes to many references that may be unclear to present day readers.

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Uppermost Canada examines the historical, cultural, and social history of the Canadian portion of the Detroit River community in the first half of the nineteenth century. The phrase "Uppermost Canada," denoting the western frontier of Upper Canada (modern Ontario), was applied to the Canadian shore of the Detroit River during the War of 1812 by a British officer, who attributed it to President James Madison. The Western District was one of the partly-judicial, partly-governmental municipal units combining contradictory arisocratic and democratic traditions into which the province was divided until 1850. With its substantial French-Canadian population and its veneer of British officialdom, in close proximity to a newly American outpost, the Western District was potentially the most unstable. Despite all however, Alan Douglas demonstrates that the Western District endured without apparent change longer than any of the others.

French-Canadians --- Frontier and pioneer life --- History. --- United States --- Canada --- Detroit River Valley (Mich. and Ont.) --- Windsor Region (Ont.) --- Detroit Region (Mich.) --- Relations --- Ethnic relations --- Canadians, Francophone --- Canadians, French-speaking --- Francophone Canadians --- French-speaking Canadians --- Canadians --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- History --- Detroit Valley (Mich. and Ont.) --- Regional studies

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Volume 3, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach BeecherIn her memoir, and 1870's revision of her journal and diary, Louisa Barnes Pratt tells of childhood in Massachusetts and Canada during the War of 1812, and independent career as a teacher and seamstress in New England, and her marriage to the Boston seaman Addison Pratt.Converting to the LDS Church, the Pratts moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, from where Brigham Young sent Addison on the first of the long missions to the Society Islands that would leave Louisa on her own. As a sole available parent,

Frontier and pioneer life. --- Mormons - United States - Biography. --- Mormons -- United States -- Biography. --- Pratt, Louisa Barnes. --- Pratt, Louisa Barnes, 1802-1880. --- Mormons --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Biography --- Pratt, Louisa Barnes, --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- History --- Barnes, Louisa, --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- Latter Day Saints --- Brighamite Mormons --- Church of Christ (Temple Lot) members --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members --- Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) members --- Hedrikites --- Josephite Mormons --- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members --- Reorganized Mormons --- RLDS Mormons --- Strangite Mormons --- Temple Lot Mormons --- Utah Mormons --- Christians

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Indian dance. --- Frontier and pioneer life. --- Folklore. --- Cattle brands. --- African Americans --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Indian dance --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Folklore --- Cattle brands --- Religion. --- Folklore & Mythology. --- Bowie, Jim, --- Texas. --- North America. --- Brands, Cattle --- Cattle --- Livestock brands --- Indians of North America --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Pioneers --- Dance, Indian --- Dance --- Marking --- Dances --- History --- Bowie, James, --- 1835 --- Akałii Bikéyah --- Civitas Texiae --- Dekesasi --- Dekesasi zhou --- Estado de Texas --- Kekeka --- Medinat Ṭeḳsas --- Politeia tou Texas --- Republic of Texas --- Shtat Tėkhas --- State of Texas --- Taaksaas --- Teeksăs --- Tejas --- Tekhas --- Tekisasu --- Tekisasu-sh --- Tekisasush --- Teksas --- Teksas Eyaleti --- Teksasa --- Teksasas --- Teksaso --- Teksasos --- T'eksas --- T'eksasŭ-ju --- T'eksasŭju --- Ṭeḳses --- Téʼsiz Hahoodzo --- Tet-khiet-sat-s --- Texas (Province) --- Texas (Republic) --- Texas suyu --- Texia --- Tiksās --- TX --- Wilāyat Tiksās --- Mexico --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Turtle Island (Continent) --- تكساس --- ولاية تكساس --- Штат Тэхас --- Тэхас --- Тексас --- Техас --- Τέξας --- Πολιτεία του Τέξας --- Tet-khiet-sat-sṳ̂ --- 텍사스 주 --- 텍사스주 --- 텍사스 --- T'eksasŭ --- טקסס --- מדינת טקסס --- テキサス州 --- Tekisasu-shū --- Tekisasushū --- テキサス --- טעקסעס --- 得克萨斯州 --- 得克萨斯 --- Tex. --- Coahuila and Texas (Mexico) --- Texas (Provisional government, 1835)