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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

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

“Every man is free,” the frontiersman Robert Rogers told a disbelieving British audience, referring to Indian villages.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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


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