It was then mainly a rural outpost of Los Angeles, roughly 40 miles to the north.

And despite their warm relations, the courtship between this rural outpost and the Japanese could sour.

In the 50-year period 1861-1911, it saw a complete transformation from isolated rural outpost to integrated metropolitan suburb.

Now the rural outpost is the center of the Catholic Church's most ambitious Web plans.

For nearly twenty years, he has lived in a rural outpost in Wisconsin.

On the first Sunday of the year, his mother would organize a feast for everyone in that rural outpost.

Travel time from Orange County, which a decade ago was considered just a rural outpost of the city, is about 90 minutes, depending on traffic.

The film investigates the social impact moving inner-city minority offenders to distant rural outposts.

Still, any night of the week, in big cities and rural outposts, blues bands continue to play.

Without a functioning telephone network or highway system, rural outposts are almost completely isolated.