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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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