The frontier, which before had always been an important factor in the economic scheme, moved steadily westward and, toward the end of the 19th century, vanished.
In the process, she paints a vivid picture of the "Last Frontier" just before and shortly after the United States purchased Alaska.
This is social expressiveness on the frontier before the word espresso was in common usage.
It had no anchor in the present, nor did it genuflect before America's frontier myths.
The region is the last "frontier" before the border with Portugal.
The final frontier before the Namibian border lies just inland of the west coast.
Last month, Iranian troops engaged in a firefight with the pesh merga, the Kurdish security forces, along the frontier before capturing and briefly detaining a pesh merga soldier.
The area was a market centre and political frontier before its conquest by the Inca empire, which led to its fortification as an Inca settlement.
Ed is the author of Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier Before the Civil War (UNC Press), and his Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas is forthcoming.
(I really did mean to vote on the term-limit question!) It could be weeks before the Last Frontier can get shaded in on all the fancy election maps.
Potgieter was a well-to-do sheep farmer from the Tarka district of eastern Cape Colony before the vacillating frontier policy of the British caused him to opt for leaving the colony.
