borderland vs frontier

borderland

noun
  • Land near a border; marches. 

frontier

noun
  • The part of a country which borders or faces another country or unsettled region. 

  • The most advanced or recent version of something; leading edge. 

verb
  • To live as pioneers on frontier territory. 

How often have the words borderland and frontier occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )