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Meanings of frontier settlement in English

Spanish
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A settlement on the frontier of civilization.

avanzada
Usage of frontier settlement in English
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The year 1707 passed away without any attack upon the exposed frontier settlement.
Historical Papers / Part 3 from Volume VI of The Works of John G...
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Contrary to what I expected, this little frontier settlement bids fair to become interesting.
Betty Zane
3
At Cassange, the frontier settlement, they sold Sekeletu's ivory.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Etown, as it was called, was a raw frontier settlement made up of mainly log cabins.
A. lincoln: a biography
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But the frontier settlement of log huts, and the majestic surrounding forests filled with game, had entirely disappeared.
Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky
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The town forthwith blossomed into a typical frontier settlement-banksand gambling dens, churches and saloons, schools and bullfights.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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No genuine type of them ever approaches nearer to the confines of civilization than a frontier settlement beckons him.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 / A Magaz...
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To this end he made an extended tour in the South and West, which passed beyond the bounds of frontier settlement.
Washington Irving
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In youth he was very studious, and made the best use of such opportunities for education as the frontier settlement afforded.
McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
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When an Indian squaw comes into a frontier settlement the first "marked-down" article she purchases is a section of stove-pipe.
Ponkapog Papers
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Her father and mother soon after landing at Philadelphia, removed to a frontier settlement of Pennsylvania, lying on what was called Marsh Creek.
An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 17...
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He was one of the early settlers who went from Connecticut to Vermont and made a home in what was then a frontier settlement.
American Prisoners of the Revolution
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We are in a state of transition, like all other frontier settlements.
The Bells of San Juan
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The young people of the frontier settlements were usually married before they were twenty.
Betty Zane
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Their pleasures and pastimes were those usual in frontier settlements.
The Mormon Menace: The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite
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Betty, in these frontier settlements a man is soon known for his real worth.
Betty Zane
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