The American frontier did not just consist of a prairie--it alsoincluded marshes and windswept sand dunes.
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Amusement parks, hotels, taverns, and dance halls abounded, as did bungalow courts and open-air tent colonies.
Within 30 years, the community had grown into a wildly popular resort served by a thriving rail line.
When the earliestsettlers arrived at Rockaway Beach on steamships in the mid-1800s, it was a narrow strip of land pocked with ponds and covered with dunes.
The American frontier did not just consist of a prairie--it alsoincluded marshes and windswept sand dunes