Word: frontierisms
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...boat, plane and car, hundreds of Americans were moving last week toward the last great U.S. frontier-Alaska. Up the Alaska Highway (1,600 miles from Dawson Creek, B.C. to Fairbanks), through some of the world's most majestic mountains and some of the continent's most unpeopled wilderness, jogged 20 families a day. Their earthly goods were strapped to their cars. They were the new pioneers, the hardiest (or, some old Alaska hands said, the most foolhardy) of the thousands of Americans who constantly deluge Alaskan clubs, hotels and chambers of commerce with requests for data about...
What would the new pioneers find? A vast land, raw, primitive and barely scratched by civilization after 80 years of U.S. ownership. A frontier society-easygoing, vigorous, elementally democratic-at its worst unabashedly bad, at its best unaffectedly generous. Opportunity-but at the price of a stiff endurance test. And to beckon the pioneers on, for good or ill, the deceptive promise of an economic boom (begun by the war, protracted by the proximity of Asiatic Russia), and the deceptive intensity of the brief Alaskan summer...
...will meet you at the frontier," rasped Rakosi. "You must place yourself at the disposal of the authorities to answer the people's court. Tell me at once where and when you will enter the country, lest anything should happen to you when you cross the frontier...
...conquest of Dent de Crolles merely whetted the speleological appetite. "Speleology is the last frontier," says M. Chevalier. "I know a hole over near Annecy that I think is deeper than this one. I've been up a subterranean river there for three kilometers. It's worth looking into...
...cost Whitney a lot more. Though it was a hit, it never paid for itself. But it did put Billy Rose on the map as a showman. It put him, specifically, in Fort Worth, Tex., which hired "Mr. Brice" at $1,000 a day to stage its 1936 Frontier Centennial...