frontiersman

The frontiersman poet Joaquin Miller was assigned to write about a week spent on Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025

In 2016, he finally won an Oscar, after four previous nominations, for his performance as a vengeance-hungry frontiersman in “The Revenant.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

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

“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

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

The requisite founding fathers, military leaders and frontiersmen mingle with civil rights activists and entertainers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 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