and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, `` The Big Bear Of Arkansas '', in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature.

But in the confused atmosphere of frontier politics, alliances were as quickly broken as they were formed, and as Pike came to favor with the governor of the Territory, the governor fell out of favor with the President of the United States.

Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.

As a pre-teen, he did not like the hard labor associated with frontier life.

Exploiting the embellished legend of his frontier days with his father, Lincoln's supporters adopted the label of " The Rail Candidate ".

Ambraciot politics featured many frontier disputes with the Amphilochians and Acarnanians.

In spite of the resolution of problems in Europe, Andronikos II was faced with the collapse of the Byzantine frontier in Asia Minor, despite the successful, but short, governorships of Alexios Philanthropenos and John Tarchaneiotes.

The whole territory, from the junction of the Kokcha river with the Amu Darya on the north-east to the province of Herat on the south-west, was some in length, with an average width from the Russian frontier to the Hindu Kush of 114 miles ( 183 km ).

In 1885, at the moment when the Amir was in conference with the British viceroy, Lord Dufferin, in India, the news came of a skirmish between Russian and Afghan troops at Panjdeh, over a disputed point in the demarcation of the northwestern frontier of Afghanistan.

In 1893 Mortimer Durand negotiated with Abdur Rahman Khan, the Durand Line Treaty for the demarcation of the frontier between Afghanistan, the FATA, North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan Provinces of Pakistan the successor state of British India.

Decius may also have taken with him troops from the Danube frontier, in order to depose Philip in 249.

The Italian invasion of Greece in October 1940 saw mounted cavalry used effectively by the Greek defenders along the mountainous frontier with Albania.

There were reports of Chinese mounted troops in action during frontier clashes with Vietnam in the mid / late 1970s.

Options open to poorer cavalry officers in the various European armies included service with less fashionable ( though often highly professional ) frontier or colonial units.

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

On the American frontier, democracy became a way of life, with widespread social, economic and political equality.

( ii ) an economic development path, where new and better off-farm employment opportunities associated with economic growth (= increasing GDP per capita ) reduce profitability of frontier agriculture and slows deforestation.

At the conclusion of discussions with the Persians, Diocletian re-organized the Mesopotamian frontier and fortified the city of Circesium ( Buseire, Syria ) on the Euphrates.

The most that can be said about built structures under Diocletian's reign is that he rebuilt and strengthened forts at the Upper Rhine frontier ( where he followed the works made under Probus's reign, both along the Lake Constance-Basel as well as along the Rhine – Iller – Danube line ), in Egypt, and on the frontier with Persia.

In an attempt to resolve the difficulty and slowness of transmitting orders to the frontier, the new capitals of the Tetrarchic era were all much closer to the Empire's frontiers than Rome had been: Trier sat on the Rhine, Sirmium and Serdica were close to the Danube, Thessaloniki was on the route leading eastward, and Nicomedia and Antioch were important points in dealings with Persia.

On the Western Front, no Allied army had penetrated the western German frontier, and on the Eastern Front, Germany had already won the war against Russia, concluded with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

An example PPF with illustrative points marked The production-possibility frontier ( PPF ) is an expository figure for representing scarcity, cost, and efficiency.

He has also advocated investing in certain smaller Asian frontier markets such as Sri Lanka and Cambodia, and currently serves as an Advisor to Leopard Capital ’ s Leopard Sri Lanka Fund.

Europe's eastern frontier was defined in the 1st century by geographer Strabo at the River Don.

Under the protocol signed on 7 May 1832 between Bavaria and the protecting Powers, and basically dealing with the way in which the Regency was to be managed until Otto reached his majority ( while also concluding the second Greek loan, for a sum of £ 2, 400, 000 sterling ), Greece was defined as an independent kingdom, with the Arta-Volos line as its northern frontier.

In the Jay Treaty of 1794, they agreed to abandon the frontier forts and to relocate on their side of the border defined in the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ).

In 1890, the frontier line had broken up ( Census maps defined the frontier line as a line beyond which the population was under 2 persons per square mile ).

It resolved a dispute over the location of the Maine – New Brunswick border, established the border between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods, originally defined in the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ), reaffirmed the location of the border ( at the 49th parallel ) in the westward frontier up to the Rocky Mountains defined in the Treaty of 1818, called for a final end to the slave trade on the high seas, and agreed to shared use of the Great Lakes.

As defined by Hine and Faragher, " frontier history tells the story of the creation and defense of communities, the use of the land, the development of markets, and the formation of states.

To this day, the " frontier " is sometimes defined as also including part of northeast Ohio, as well as Pennsylvania's Erie region.

In 1773, a frontier was defined separating Nueva (" new ") or Alta (" upper ") California, under the jurisdiction of the Franciscans, from Antigua (" old ") or Baja (" lower ") California, which was entrusted to the Dominicans.

In Operation Meghdoot of 1984 India seized most of the inhospitable Siachen Glacier region where the frontier had not been clearly defined in the agreement ( possibly as the area was thought too barren to be controversial ), though most of the subsequent deaths in the Siachen Conflict have been from natural disasters, e. g. avalanches in 2010 and 2012.

Rivas-Martinez defined that the foothills of the Serra da Gerês along with the foothills of the Serra da Cabreira ( lands below the Tâmega, Ave and Cávado watersheds ) constitute the frontier between the Euro-Siberian and Mediterranean regions, that conferes on the Penede-Gerês a floral and phytogeographic importance.

When the Rhine was defined as the frontier under the early emperors, as a result of Roman military disasters against the ancestors of the Franks, the Romans created two provinces, populated essentially by Germanics or former Germanics on the left bank of the Rhine: Upper and Lower Germany.

Though subject to eventual attack and deprivation by the Parthians and Palmyrenes, it had nothing like the constant incursions faced in other areas on the Roman frontier, such as Germany and North Africa, nor the entrenched cultural presence that defined the other, more Hellenized, eastern provinces.

Under the protocol signed on May 7, 1832 between Bavaria and the protecting Powers, and basically dealing with the way in which the Regency was to be managed until Otto reached his majority ( while also concluding the second Greek loan, for a sum of £ 2, 400, 000 sterling ), Greece was defined as an independent kingdom, with the Arta-Volos line as its northern frontier.

Its western frontier is simply defined by the waterway of the Grota do Loural.

To the west, immediately near the frontier defined by Rua do Século and the zone delimited to the south by Rua de São Bento and north by Rua da Escola Politécnica are the Garden of the Prince Royal (), the Academy of Sciences building, the Church of Santa Catarina, the Convento dos Paulistas ( Convent of São Paulo ) and Palácio Pombal ( Palace of Pombal ).

The boundaries of Ethiopia and Eritrea follow a frontier defined by the Ethiopian-Italian Treaty of 1902, which ruled Eritrea as a colony at the time.

However, the frontier near Badme was poorly defined in the treaty, and since Eritrea became a separate nation in 1993 each nation disputed where the boundary actually runs.

The root cause of the conflict on the Maine frontier was over the border between Acadia and New England, which New France defined as the Kennebec River in southern Maine.

The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, and finally, its growth into one of the most populous and economically powerful states of the United States.

Even after Evacuation Day, British troops still remained in frontier forts in areas which had clearly been defined by the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) to be part of the United States.