The Aimless Life is a historical memoir that tells the story of Leonard Worcester Jr. and provides a clear example of the capitalist development of the American West and borderlands regions in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
The Aimless Life is a historical memoir that tells the story of Leonard Worcester Jr. and provides a clear example of the capitalist development of the American West and borderlands regions in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
Leonard Worcester Jr. (1863–1939) was the son of Presbyterian missionaries and the grandson of the famous Samuel Worcester, who fought against Cherokee dispossession. Andrew Offenburger is an assistant professor of history at Miami University. He is the author of Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880–1917.
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List of Illustrations Major Events in the Life of Leonard Worcester Jr. Introduction 1. Childhood and American Transformations, 1863–1881 2. A Pragmatic Professional, 1881–1893 3. Colorado, 1893–1905 4. Borderland Mining and the Early Revolution, 1905–1914 5. Business in the Borderlands, 1914–1939 6. Coda Acknowledgments Index
List of Illustrations Major Events in the Life of Leonard Worcester Jr. Introduction 1. Childhood and American Transformations, 1863–1881 2. A Pragmatic Professional, 1881–1893 3. Colorado, 1893–1905 4. Borderland Mining and the Early Revolution, 1905–1914 5. Business in the Borderlands, 1914–1939 6. Coda Acknowledgments Index
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