BY GEORGE BOOTH. REPRINTED FROM THE International Review for July, 1880. NEW YORK: A. S. BARNES AND COMPANY. Copyright, 1880, By A. S. Barnes and Company ....

What do we mean by the frontier? And what, by frontier folk? The terms came into vogue when tolerably well-defined lines marked the onset of civilization at the far West, and all beyond was wilderness. Yet to-day, with settlements scattered over all the Territories, the phrase loses none of its significance. It still has a geographical import, and another, deeper than the geographical, suggesting a peculiar civilization and a certain characteristic mode of life. It does not bring to mind those p