In a message dated 10/29/2005 11:20:12 PM Mountain Standard Time, hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk writes: No the world is going to Life + 70. The USA is as always out of step. Everybody's out of step but me. Frontier-era means late 18th, all of 19th, and very early 20th century in the United States. It's actually quite a stereotypical reference, and I have been told but do not know whether it is true that the two places which most often did the "free beer" on election day were early Chicago and early San Francisco. Don't anybody start a flame war with me over that, because I won't respond. If you disagree you have every right to disagree. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!