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frontiersman

noun as in mountain man

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Now Wang is enjoying a third act, this time as a new-media frontiersman.

In their company Jack Kilmeny was frankly a Western frontiersman.

The new sentry's zeal, joined with an ex-frontiersman's aim, was fatal.

Jim Beckwourth was our guide—a life-long frontiersman, an old man “beated and chopped with tanned antiquity.”

For the stratum of frontiersman and barbarian—not to say savage—lies just below the surface in us all, and a scratch exposes it.

Wayne was the son of a Pennsylvania frontiersman and came honestly by his aptitude for Indian fighting.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to frontiersman, such as: backwoodsman, hinterlander, and ridge runner.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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