1.   An unidentified Texan was the successful bidder at an auction of the only known portrait of Alamo and American frontier hero James Bowie.

2.   As the American frontier expands in cyberspace, Ms. Sooter has pioneered a remote piece of the country the old-fashioned way.

3.   As Richard Slotkin, author of an influential trilogy on the myth of the American frontier, points out, the vigilante label is wondrously malleable.

4.   Alaska was, and is, the nearest thing we have to an American frontier, and frontiers seldom are tidy.

5.   Everyone is interested in the American frontier.

6.   For it is a unique song collection that traces the evolution of Celtic music on the American frontier.

7.   For of course, the American frontier was never about happy cowboys or nonstop rip-snorting adventure.

8.   It was on the American frontier that the rough-and-tumble regular guy grew into a heroic ideal.

9.   Such a retreat inside American frontiers could have dire consequences for Europe.

10.   The death of the American frontier.