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This "anthropological history" tells the story of homesteading and
community organization in the Canadian-American West through
personal reminiscences and locally written histories. John W.
Bennett and Seena B. Kohl interpret those stories through the
lenses of history and social science, and they present a view of
settlement experience as one phase of the evolving postfrontier
society and culture of western North America. Settling the
Canadian-American West, 1890-1915 contains a synthesis of Canadian
and U.S. settlement experiences giving, to the extent possible,
equal space to both sides of the international boundary. The
experiences of people in these adjacent territories were virtually
identical, with emigrant populations from the same countries and
socioeconomic strata. Among other aspects of the homesteading
experience, the authors explore the "interactive adaptation" that
developed in the West. Networks of mutual aid, reverently
remembered by the voices found in these pages, eased the inevitable
hardships. John W. Bennett is Distinguished Anthropologist in
Residence in the Department of Anthropology at Washington
University. Seena B. Kohl is a professor in the Department of
Behavioral and Social Science at Webster University.
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