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  2. Frontier California - Wikipedia

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    GTE (1929-2000) Verizon (2000-2016) Frontier (2016-present) Website. Frontier.com. Frontier California, Inc. is a Frontier Communications -owned operating company providing telephone service in former Verizon regions. This included Southern California cities such as Long Beach, Seal Beach, Lakewood, Norwalk and Santa Monica .

  3. American frontier - Wikipedia

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    The frontier is the margin of undeveloped territory that would comprise the United States beyond the established frontier line. [24] [25] The U.S. Census Bureau designated frontier territory as generally unoccupied land with a population density of fewer than 2 people per square mile (0.77 people per square kilometer).

  4. Westward Expansion Trails - Wikipedia

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    Westward Expansion Trails. In the history of the American frontier, pioneers built overland trails throughout the 19th century, especially between 1829 and 1870, as an alternative to sea and railroad transport. These immigrants began to settle much of North America west of the Great Plains as part of the mass overland migrations of the mid-19th ...

  5. Southwestern United States - Wikipedia

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    States. Core: Arizona New Mexico Others, depending on boundaries used: California Colorado Nevada Utah Oklahoma Texas. The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacent portions of ...

  6. Alcatraz Island - Wikipedia

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    Alcatraz Island ( / ˈælkəˌtræz /) is a small island 1.25 miles (2.01 km) offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. [1] The island was developed in the mid-19th century with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, and a military prison. In 1934, the island was converted into a federal prison, Alcatraz Federal ...

  7. Kit Carson - Wikipedia

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    In the 1830s, he accompanied Ewing Young on an expedition to Mexican California and joined fur-trapping expeditions into the Rocky Mountains. He lived among and married into the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes. In the 1840s, Carson was hired as a guide by John C. Frémont, whose expeditions covered much of California, Oregon, and the Great Basin area.

  8. Frontier Communications - Wikipedia

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    Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. is an American telecommunications company. Known as Citizens Utilities Company until 2000, Citizens Communications Company until 2008, and Frontier Communications Corporation until 2020, as a communications provider with a fiber-optic network and cloud-based services, Frontier offers broadband internet, digital television, and computer technical support to ...

  9. Great Wall of Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    The Great Wall of Los Angeles is a 1978 mural designed by Judith Baca and executed with the help of over 400 community youth and artists coordinated by the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). [1] The mural, on the concrete sides of the Tujunga Wash in the San Fernando Valley was Baca's first mural [2] and SPARC's first public art ...