The judge in the case acknowledged, "We're dealing with a frontier here".
Plus, the restaurant, now in its second month, is still operating with a frontier mentality.
I went with Javelin's Canyon Candy, a mash-up record with a frontier theme, partly because the button was designed to look like a sheriff's badge.
The Sun Belt infused the Republican Party with a frontier spirit: the optimistic, free-ranging embrace of individualism and the disdain for big government and regulation.
But even so, "Oklahoma!" ends with a frontier trial that explicitly vindicates our hero, the symbolic and joyous triumph of expanding democracy.
After the Communist victory over the Nationalists in 1949, some 100,000 defeated soldiers were put to work clearing land, in something like a kibbutz crossed with a frontier-defence force.
With a frontier mentality, trailblazing entrepreneurs led pioneering teams that traveled fast and light and whose members packed bedrolls for the all-nighters that came with staking a claim to the new economy.
And what followed was extraordinary: Mr. Rollins, obviously inspired, picked up the thread, foraging outside the established key, with a frontier intrepidness that was nevertheless true to his own voice.
"We just don't want a house that is stereotyped with a frontier theme," Mr. Boberg said, noting that he plans to "keep the stuffed deer heads and buffalo rugs to a minimum".
As land grew scarce on the other Japanese islands, mostly second- or third-born sons who would not inherit any land back home arrived on Hokkaido with a frontier spirit, heeding the government's call to develop the new land.
