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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 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

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

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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