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frontiersman

[fruhn-teerz-muhn, fron-, fruhn-teerz-] / frʌnˈtɪərz mən, frɒn-, ˈfrʌn tɪərz- /
NOUN
mountain man
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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

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

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 the time of Anna’s murder, the Osage County sheriff, who carried the bulk of responsibility for maintaining law and order in the area, was a fifty-eight-year-old, three-hundred-pound frontiersman named Harve M. Freas.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

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

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

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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