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
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
“Every man is free,” the frontiersman Robert Rogers told a disbelieving British audience, referring to Indian villages.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
The film offers rare representation for Black cowboys, frontiersmen and lawmen who have largely been written out of Hollywood’s cinematic depictions of the Old West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
For most of the trip thereafter, the crew of Civil War veterans, trappers and frontiersmen would portage the major rapids.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2021
Her characters were frequently hardscrabble frontiersmen with poetic souls, loggers and fishermen and truck drivers who “eat and drink like Henry VIII,” as she put it.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2019
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
