frontiersman

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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

In 1955, the frontiersman Davy Crockett became the most famous man in America, more than a century after his death at the Alamo.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2023

At the time of Anna’s murder, the Osage County sheriff, who carried the bulk of responsibility for maintaining law and order in the area, was a fifty-eight-year-old, three-hundred-pound frontiersman named Harve M. Freas.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann