frontier settler

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The mountain man, unlike the prospector, cattleman, or frontier settler, left no successor .

From Time Magazine Archive

There was still plenty of room for the rude cabin and stump-dotted clearing of the ordinary frontier settler, the wood-chopper and game hunter.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Roosevelt, Theodore

He was not anxious for his sister to marry; least of all, to marry a frontier settler.

From The Hallam Succession by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston