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
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
On television, Ames was likely best known for his role as Mingo, the Oxford-educated Native American in the 1960s adventure series “Daniel Boone” that starred Fess Parker as the famous frontiersman.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2023
In the 1880s, John Florer, a Kansas frontiersman who referred to Osage territory as “God’s country,” established the first trading post in Gray Horse.
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
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
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
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
