What is "frontier settlement"

Usage examples of "frontier settlement".

I had everything I wanted there--luxury, society, parties, balls, dances, friends--all that the heart of a girl could desire, but I preferred to come to this little frontier settlement.

Louis, then a frontier settlement on the Mississippi, where the chief branch of his business had consisted in furnishing Indian traders with goods and equipments.

What had once been a crude frontier settlement is now an eastern city, with nothing Persian about it.

Pook's arms were long, but this frontier settlement, in the middle of the most inhospitable and untamed land imaginable, was a longer way still, and Regis was quite content in the security of his new sanctuary.

It was a small frontier settlement, semifortified, ringed with corrals.

For most of the 19th Century this remained the most thickly settled and richest zone of the Domination, and a source of surplus Citizen population for frontier settlement.

She was from the civilized worlds and probably had never even seen a frontier settlement.

Certain it is that many a frontier settlement would have been wiped out of existence.

Accia was a frontier settlement, and the attempts by the outcasts to make the Stone settlement even a rough copy of the home city were almost pathetic.

Bingtown is a backward trade town, a frontier settlement with no future save trade with my city.