frontiersman
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A New England frontiersman and ‘49er called “Grizzly Adams” — a name we likely know from a 1970s television show — tamed and trained a couple of young grizzlies as his companions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The frontiersman poet Joaquin Miller was assigned to write about a week spent on Wall Street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025
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
On television, Ames was likely best known for his role as Mingo, the Oxford-educated Native American in the 1960s adventure series “Daniel Boone” that starred Fess Parker as the famous frontiersman.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 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
