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Bean, Roy. 1825-1903. US frontier judge. “The Law West of the Pecos”.
Billy the Kid. 1859-81. US frontier outlaw.
Boone, Daniel. 1734-1820. US frontier explorer. Alamo.
Bowie, James. 1796-1836. US frontiersman. Bowie knife.
Calamity Jane. (Martha Jane Burke). 1852-1903. US sharpshooter frontierswoman.
Cape Frontier Wars. =Kaffir Wars.
Carson, Kit. 1809-68. US frontier guide.
Crockett, Davy. 1786-1836. US frontiersman. Killed at Alamo.
Dodge City. 1864. Famed US frontier town.
Frontier. Moving US boundary between developed east and unsettled west. Opportunity for adventureres, explorers, pioneers.
Hickock, James (Wild Bill). 1837-76. US frontier lawman.
Kaffir Wars. 1779-1879. Bantu vs British in South Africa. Cape Frontier Wars.
Kennedy, John. 1917-63. US President 1961-. -“New Frontier”. Peace Corps. Apollo Program. Cuban Missile Crisis. Assassinated by Oswald. Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
Mersen, Treaty. 870. Divided Lotharingia. Charles II and Louis the German establish French/German frontier.
Moscow Treaty. 1920 Baltic Liberation. 1921 Turkish frontiers. 1970 W Germany, USSR renounce force.
Siegfried Line. 1937-40 German fortifications on western frontier = West Wall. Also, part of Hindenburg Line.
Starr, Belle. 1848-89. US horse thief, frontier heroine.
Vigilante. US extralegal law enforcers on frontier.
West Wall. 1934-9. German illegal fortification of Rhine frontier.