Frontier life: borderlands, settlement & colonial encountersFrontier life, borderlands, settlements and colonial encounters documents the experience on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. It features documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in North America, Australiasia, and Africa. Major themes included are settlement development, law and order, violence, expeditions and exploration, relations with indigenous peoples, trade and commerce, death and disease, missionaries and religion, women's history, military matters, mining and gold rushes, settler governance, contested boundaries, and agriculture and livestock. The majority of the material are unpublished manuscripts in the form of correspondence, diaries, land records, and business records. Features of Frontier Life include: interactive maps and chronology, visual galleries, thematic guides, and frontier settlement floorplans and images.