frontiersman

A New England frontiersman and ‘49er called “Grizzly Adams” — a name we likely know from a 1970s television show — tamed and trained a couple of young grizzlies as his companions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025

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

No true frontiersman would ever stoop to use it.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

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

Federalists surely groaned at such bombast but pugnacious frontiersmen cheered it.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

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