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frontiersman

[fruhn-teerz-muhn, fron-, fruhn-teerz-] / frʌnˈtɪərz mən, frɒn-, ˈfrʌn tɪərz- /
NOUN
mountain man
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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

He even made the dubious claim of having gone hunting with the famed frontiersman Daniel Boone in Kentucky around 1810, even though Boone was in his 70s at the time and living in Missouri.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2024

He looked every inch the frontiersman — except for the swimming pool in the background.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

A half-century later, that encounter has become the life’s work of this former Seattle dentist turned Alaskan frontiersman.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 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

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 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

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


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