frontiersman
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That’s after watching a documentary about frontiersman Henry James Entrikin, enjoying a drink at a saloon and grilling hot dogs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
The frontiersman poet Joaquin Miller was assigned to write about a week spent on Wall Street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025
He even made the dubious claim of having gone hunting with the famed frontiersman Daniel Boone in Kentucky around 1810, even though Boone was in his 70s at the time and living in Missouri.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2024
This took place over the objections of figures such as Tennessee frontiersman and congressman Davy Crockett, humanitarian organizations and, of course, the tribes themselves.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
The tradition of the tough and versatile frontiersman is true but not exclusive.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Factory workers, farmers, gold diggers, frontiersmen flocked to the US with the belief that they could create a new identity - an "American" - unshackled from the class systems of Europe.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Lee and his ilk make out these California quitters to be like Tennessee’s frontiersmen of yore, mythologized as brave pioneers who tamed a wild, untapped land even as they largely settle in suburbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
Some of the West’s early frontiersmen, among them John Colter and Jim Bridger, first passed here in the early 1800s.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2020
Federalists surely groaned at such bombast but pugnacious frontiersmen cheered it.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Smith was the last of the true frontiersmen; Howard was paving Smith’s West under the urgent wheels of his automobiles.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
