frontierism

In the romance side, the Lost Colony-type books, involve setting up a setting which tends to have the alien civilization and its artifacts, or a colony, usually generations long after human settlment, and some amount of frontierism and social changes evolving based on planetary conditions and dealing with environment which was not where humanity evolved and which may have traps from that or the alien artifacts.

Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010

First, it puts into context how I might describe my mind set, which might be called "frontierism."

Farm Fetish Rogers 2006

Pushing forward, Reno came quickly to a shallow "cooley" (frontierism for gully) that led down through the bluff to the stream.

Custer's Last Battle 1890

Jessica Sloan of Rosslyn, Va., a 27-year-old business developer for nonprofits, said in an email that she was always fascinated by space and admired "good old-fashioned American frontierism."

The Seattle Times 2011

Jessica Sloan of Rosslyn, Va., a 27-year-old business developer for nonprofits, said in an email that she was always fascinated by space and admired "good old-fashioned American frontierism."

The Seattle Times 2011

The coarsened sensibility that this now-dominant Southernism and frontierism has brought to our national dialogue is unmistakable.

The Jacksonian Party 2008

a frontierism for "hush," and all ears were turned expectant.

A Wounded Name Charles King 1888