frontiersman
Americannoun
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frontiersmen
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of frontiersman
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85; frontier ( def. ) + 's 1 + -man
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That’s after watching a documentary about frontiersman Henry James Entrikin, enjoying a drink at a saloon and grilling hot dogs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
The frontiersman poet Joaquin Miller was assigned to write about a week spent on Wall Street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025
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
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
Lee and his ilk make out these California quitters to be like Tennessee’s frontiersmen of yore, mythologized as brave pioneers who tamed a wild, untapped land even as they largely settle in suburbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
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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