frontiersman
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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 looked every inch the frontiersman — except for the swimming pool in the background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
A half-century later, that encounter has become the life’s work of this former Seattle dentist turned Alaskan frontiersman.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
In 1955, the frontiersman Davy Crockett became the most famous man in America, more than a century after his death at the Alamo.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2023
At school, he stood out for not only being the best sertanista, or frontiersman, but also as a good athlete.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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
For their portrayers, John Magaro and Orion Lee, respectively, that meant living like frontiersmen and trusting the vision of their acclaimed director.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2021
The same goes for Emily Blunt hiding from those extraordinarily ugly aliens, or a pair of frontiersmen stealing milk from a rich man’s cow.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 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
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