Settlement location decisions in a frontier region reflect both the economic and cultural variables. Distance and environmental quality are two economic variables and both are also appropriate in analyses of migration and of economic change
. Institutional considerations and issues of contact, cooperation and conflict incorporate a variety of cultural variables. Settlement chronology in a frontier region requires the initial location of an urban centre, distance biased rural expansion, frontier town
L'évolution des paysages agricoles sur les fronts pionniers dépend des points de passage de la frontière, de la distance des centres urbains et de l'environnement. L'application d'une analyse de corrélation canonique aux données du XIX s. pour la