Prairie Frontier

(noun)

An American territory that comprises the geography, history, and culture of the forward wave of American westward expansion from the original colonial settlements to the early twentieth century.

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Examples of Prairie Frontier in the following topics:

  • The End of the Frontier

    • In 1890, the frontier line had broken up (census maps defined the frontier line as a line beyond which the population was less than two persons per square mile).
    • The frontier's impact on popular culture was enormous, as evidenced by dime novels, Wild West shows, and, after 1910, Western movies set on the frontier.
    • Historian Karel Bicha explains that nearly 600,000 American farmers sought cheap land by moving to the prairie frontier of the Canadian West from 1897 to 1914.
    • Nevertheless, the ethos and storyline of the "American frontier" had passed.
    • The cowboy, the quintessential symbol of the American frontier, ca. 1887.

  • Pioneer Women

    • Although the eastern image of farm life on the prairies emphasizes the isolation of the lonely farmer, in reality, rural folk created a rich social life for themselves.
    • Childhood on the American frontier is contested territory among academics.
    • Historians Katherine Harris, in Long Vistas: Women and Families on Colorado Homesteads (1993), and Elliott West, in Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier (1989), write that a rural upbringing allowed children to break loose from urban hierarchies of age and gender, promoted family interdependence, and in the end, produced children who were more self-reliant, mobile, adaptable, responsible, independent, and in touch with nature than their urban or eastern counterparts.

  • Ranchers, Cowboys, and Cattle

    • The prairie and desert lands of what is today Mexico and the western United States were well suited to "open range" grazing.
    • One of the most well-known range wars of the American frontier, the Johnson County War has since become a highly mythologized and symbolic story of the Wild West, and over the years, variations of the storyline have come to include some of its most famous historical figures.

  • Frontier Revivals

    • In the new frontier regions, the revivals of the Second Great Awakening took the form of vast and exhilarating camp meetings.
    • In the newly settled frontier regions, the revivals of the Second Great Awakening took the form of camp meetings.
    • They were an integral part of the frontier expansion of the Second Great Awakening.

  • Temperate Grasslands

    • Temperate grasslands are found throughout central North America, where they are also known as prairies, and within Eurasia, where they are known as steppes .
    • The dominant vegetation tends to consist of grasses; some prairies sustain populations of grazing animals .
    • The American bison (Bison bison), more commonly called the buffalo, is a grazing mammal that once populated American prairies in huge numbers.

  • Understanding Production Possibilities

    • The production possibility frontier shows the combinations of output that could be produced using available inputs.
    • In economics, the production possibility frontier (PPF) is a graph that shows the combinations of two commodities that could be produced using the same total amount of the factors of production.
    • In this instance, the production possibilities frontier is also the consumption possibilities frontier.
    • Trade enables consumption outside the production possibility frontier.
    • Explain the benefits of trade and exchange using the production possibilities frontier (PPF)

  • The Circular Flow Model

    • The circular flow of income can also be analyzed using the production possibility frontier (PPF).
    • A point of the frontier line indicates the efficient use of available inputs, while a point beneath the curve shows inefficiency.
    • The graph illustrates a typical production possibilities frontier curve.
    • State the function of the circular flow diagram and the production possibilities frontier

  • Types of Biodiversity

    • An example of a largely-extinct ecosystem in North America is the prairie ecosystem.
    • Prairies once spanned central North America from the boreal forest in northern Canada down into Mexico.
    • The variety of ecosystems on earth, from (a) coral reef to (b) prairie, enables a great diversity of species to exist.

  • Dust Bowl Migrants

    • The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American prairie lands in the 1930s.
    • The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936.

  • Production Possibility Frontier

    • A production-possibility frontier (PPF) graphs the combinations for the production of two commodities with which the same amounts are used.
    • Within a market system, economists use the production possibility frontier (PPF) to graph the combinations of the amounts of two commodities that can be produced using the same amount of each factor of production.
    • Explain the benefits of trade and exchange using the production possibilities frontier (PPF)