frontiersman
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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
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
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 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
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
