Patronizing the dispensary was perfectly legal, provided a doctor's prescription for a list of specified medical conditions was presented, yet the pioneering visitors — it was not clear if they were patients — seemed none too eager to declare themselves, perhaps taken aback by the horde of news reporters there to greet them.
In tiny interiors pioneer families and visitors bonded over home cooking, while around campfires, hard-riding cowboys dug into their chow with abandon -- though we were mercifully spared the culinary details.
In his novel, "Giants in the Earth," Ole Rolvaag has a pioneering farmer give a visitor a tour of his land.
Visitors learn that pioneer women wore split drawer undergarments to make campground hygiene easier and insisted on bonnets to protect their complexions from the prairie sun.
Microsoft Corp. also pays homage to early computing pioneers in a well-designed visitor center at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters.
Pioneer, ultimate questing man.
Past visitors include Chicago house pioneer Frankie Knuckles, Paul Oakenfold, Trent Reznor, Richie Hawtin, the Front 242 DJs, and countless others, playing the finest in authentic house, disco, funk and more.
Google's site, including recently acquired video-sharing pioneer YouTube Inc., attracted 528 million visitors worldwide compared with 527 million for Microsoft.
There are almost as many ways to measure reader traffic as there are blogs right now, but Nielsen estimates that Dooce sometimes has as many as six million visitors a month, and Pioneer Woman is in the same range.
