The Promised Land: Settling The West 1896-1914 - Plot & Excerpts
Jules Verne died; Greta Garbo was born. Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity, Freud his “Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex.” Russia crushed a revolution; Norway and Sweden parted company. Ty Cobb began his baseball career and Isadora Duncan opened her dancing school. The Rotary Club was born; so were the Wobblies. Picasso began his “pink period”; Debussy wrote “Clair de Lune”; Upton Sinclair published The Jungle. The world was introduced to Ovaltine, Vicks VapoRub, Palmolive Soap, and the first neon sign. The New York censor closed Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession after a single performance. And in Pittsburgh, David Belasco had a new hit, The Girl of the Golden West.The Golden West! In Canada that phrase had a romantic ring, for the West had reached the half-way point of what can be called its Golden Age. Nine years had passed since Clifford Sifton and the Laurier Liberals took office and launched the settlement wave. Another nine lay ahead before the opening thunder of the Great War would cut off the flow of immigrants.
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