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Contributors—historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists—present numerous examples of the frontier as a shifting zone of innovation and recombination through which cultural materials from many sources have been unpredictably channeled and transformed. At the same time, they reveal recurring processes of frontier history that enable world-historical comparison: the emergence of the frontier in relation to a core area; the mutually structuring interactions between frontier and core; and the development of social exchange, merger, or conflict between previously separate populations brought together on the frontier.

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Untaming the Frontier speaks to many different literatures in various disciplines and fields and does so with remarkable success. We're often required to take a leap of faith when we read works outside our own discipline, but this collection makes that leap possible. --David Igler, author of Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 <p/> The stimulating essays are literally all over the map and grounded in narratives of specific places. --American Historical Review <p/> Interesting, well-argued, and usefully illustrated by maps and figures. --Journal of Anthropological Research

<i>Untaming the Frontier </i>speaks to many different literatures in various disciplines and fields and does so with remarkable success. We re often required to take a leap of faith when we read works outside our own discipline, but this collection makes that leap possible. David Igler, author of <i>Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850 1920 </i> The stimulating essays are literally all over the map and grounded in narratives of specific places. <i>American Historical Review</i> Interesting, well-argued, and usefully illustrated by maps and figures. <i>Journal of Anthropological Research</i>

Untaming the Frontier speaks to many different literatures in various disciplines and fields and does so with remarkable success. We re often required to take a leap of faith when we read works outside our own discipline, but this collection makes that leap possible. David Igler, author of Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850 1920 The stimulating essays are literally all over the map and grounded in narratives of specific places. American Historical Review Interesting, well-argued, and usefully illustrated by maps and figures. Journal of Anthropological Research

Untaming the Frontier speaks to many different literatures in various disciplines and fields and does so with remarkable success. We re often required to take a leap of faith when we read works outside our own discipline, but this collection makes that leap possible. David Igler, author of Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850 1920 The stimulating essays are literally all over the map and grounded in narratives of specific places. American Historical Review Interesting, well-argued, and usefully illustrated by maps and figures. Journal of Anthropological Research

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Bradley J. Parker is assistant professor of history at the University of Utah and author of The Mechanics of Empire. Lars Rodseth is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Utah.

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