Apparently his frontier experience had taught him, with many other Utahns of his generation, to subordinate individual ambition to the community welfare.
I suspect most of us think of anti-Indian genocide as belonging to the frontier experience.
He is especially useful in tracing the roots of Turner's idea of a bracing frontier experience that built the American character.
Any soldier with frontier experience knew just how unlikely it was that diplomacy would succeed.
By one analysis, the drive for the end zone represents a re-enactment of the frontier experience: the offensive drive as manifest destiny.
"The book recounts a quintessential moment in the early frontier experience of New England's settlers."
America is still close enough to the frontier experience of relentless work and danger to view any kind of fun with suspicion.
Newer worlds represent more of a frontier experience with free-flowing alliances and warfare.
However, this frontier experience was not unique to the United States.
Each nation had quite different frontier experiences.