frontier-pioneer

Updated: May 26, 2025

But then we were in the Arid Belt and the frontier-pioneer stage; we had no politics and no politicians. I must return, however, to the less exciting, but I suppose more important, life of the regular farmer, and consider his efforts at organisation.

Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett - The Rural Life Problem of the United States: Notes of an Irish Observer

The Far Western section has hardly yet emerged from the frontier-pioneer stage, and its rural problem is still below the horizon. I may, however, note in passing a few evidences that the people of this section have already shown a very real concern for rural progress.

Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett - The Rural Life Problem of the United States: Notes of an Irish Observer