plainsman
Americannoun
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plainsmen
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noun
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“Oh, no, we wouldn’t!” he asserted with all the eagerness of the amateur plainsman.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018
A plainsman would not only claim to be ignorant of the ways of other regions but willingly appear to be misinformed about them.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2017
General Pershing turned, heard gruff phrases from the lips of a distraught plainsman, obviously the owner of the land on which he, General Pershing, hunted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Henry and Jane, older and wiser, know that talent, like blood type, is decided before birth; that the plainsman, the rebel and the runaway are all branches on the same family tree.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jake Self was forty-nine years old when he died, and he had been a pioneer and a plainsman since his boyhood.
From Tales and Trails of Wakarusa by Alexander Miller Harvey
Murnane’s mysterious plainsmen pursue the “lifelong task of shaping from uneventful days in a flat landscape the substance of myth.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2017
For Murnane, for the plainsmen, this obviously apparent richness of the actual is a kind of poverty.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2017
The plainsmen who cling stubbornly to their windy reaches are outraged, and the argument is rumbling over the horizons.
From Time Magazine Archive
The idea of a clash between these softhearted, hard-boiled plainsmen and the unscrupulous racketeers of the second city of the land is excellent.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would bring together the last of the plainsmen, scouts, trappers, and many others who had been engaged in the conquest of the wilderness.
From On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler
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