plainsman
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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
He's a sort of modern Kit Carson, the strong silent Gary Cooper plainsman type.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Percy saw the stranger plainly now, a slightly built, rather good-looking young fellow, dressed as an ordinary plainsman, standing upright and looking expectantly towards the two riders who were approaching him.
From Sergeant Silk the Prairie Scout by Leighton, Robert
For Murnane, for the plainsmen, this obviously apparent richness of the actual is a kind of poverty.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2017
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
Again, in "Death of a Gaucho," one of these wild plainsmen is a mad patriot, storming a hundred Royalist soldiers in the night and dying slowly of numberless swordcuts with a muttered "Vive la patria."
From Time Magazine Archive
His new hero, Steve Canyon, would be a lean and squinty, older version of Terry; a fellow with an easy, insolent, Gary Cooperish grace that marked a breed of plainsmen, and airplanesmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
These rough plainsmen asked themselves this question as they approached the conflagration; then they shut their teeth hard and meted out a terrible chastisement before pushing their inquiries further.
From The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies by Cullum, Ridgwell
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