settle the frontier

Examples (10)

• Pioneers rushed to settle the frontier after the new railway opened.
• By 1890, much of the western frontier had been settled.
• The government offered land grants to help families settle the frontier.
• She dreamed of settling the frontier and starting a schoolhouse there.
• Attempts to settle the northern frontier often ran into harsh winters.
• New forts were built to protect homesteaders as they settled the frontier.
• Investors hoped the telegraph would make it easier to settle the frontier.
• We are not here to conquer but to settle the frontier and trade fairly.
• Settling the frontier required cooperation with indigenous communities.
• If they could settle the frontier, a new state would soon be admitted.