boatman

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According to legend, it took rough and rugged characters to tame the early American frontier: men like Daniel Boone, the trailblazer, or Mike Fink, the brawling river boatman.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

"I'm an old boatman, I have experienced another four floods in the village. This was the worst," he told media.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2023

As the skilled boatman guides the outrigger across the reef and into the shallows, Agutaya looks like a piece of paradise.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2023

“The Kingdoms of Savannah” is an ensemble piece with no real center of gravity, and way too many kooky humans to enumerate here: a slumlord, a lazy boatman, a whistling vagrant.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022

He did not have the skills he would need to survive in the coming days, those of outdoorsman, hunter, or river boatman.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson