Sentence examples for frontier communities from inspiring English sources

The theory could be fanciful, but I couldn't help thinking when I was in California of how Shakespeare's titanic dramas of kings and queens, heroes and villains, found some kind of resonance with hard-bitten frontier communities, accustomed to a life of extremes.

His first expedition was a raid on Cobleskill, and he raided other frontier communities throughout the summer.

Brant began his campaign in late May with a raid on Cobleskill, and raided other frontier communities throughout the summer.

Attacks on the frontier communities of what is now southern Maine in the Northeast Coast Campaign (1703) again put Deerfield residents on the alert.

Massachusetts (which then included Maine) was in the forefront of the war with New France, and its northern frontier communities suffered significantly from French and Indian raids.

In 1863, gold was the preferred form of currency in western frontier communities and had a value, fixed and guaranteed by the U.S. Government, of $20.67 per ounce.

By 1870 the frontier community had a population of 16,083, a figure that nearly doubled a decade later.

To oversimplify a bit: American exceptionalism, rugged individualism, love of the frontier, community and freedom.

Pucallpa is a frontier community, equipped with electricity but lacking paved streets and sewers in many areas.

The setting is a frontier community somewhere cold: a slick regime with puritanical Christian vibes, and snowy wilderness suggesting American bible belt, maybe Sarah Palin's Alaska.

The McGraw-Hill Building has gouged out half of what was considered one of the hottest blocks in Hell's Kitchen in the 1920, the block bounded by 8th and 9th Avenue and 41st and 42nd St. Hell's Kitchen is not a frontier community any more, but a sort of vehicular gateway to the heart of Manhattan.