A History of the Mountain Province

A HISTORY OF THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE HOWARD FRY In this book, the history of the Mountain Province is seen to fall into three distinct periods. In the first of these, when the Republican Party controlled the Presidency of the Unite States, the emphasis was upon creating a form of mountain reservation for the "non-Christian tribes" of the Cordillera Central. After a series of adventurous expeditions had been undertaken in order to define the ethnology of the region, policy was directed toward developing roads and trails whereby to put an end to the intertribal feuding and headhunting, thus laying the foundations for the future of these "wild men," as Dean C. Worcester was in the habit of describing these mountain peoples. This policy of creating mountain reservation inevitably lent itself to "divide-and-rule" tactics on the part of the imperial power. The second period was inaugurated by the incoming Democrats in 1913, when the idea of separating the mountain peoples from their lowland C