plainsmen
- plural of plainsman.
Example Sentences
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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
If nothing else, the debate has rallied the plainsmen to search for new ways to deal with the realities of decline -- less water and oil; fewer minerals, people, towns.
From Time Magazine Archive
He went on the famed buffalo hunt of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, when the special escort, commanded by Generals Sheridan and Custer, included the West's most distinguished plainsmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus for the first time the borderers began to number in their ranks plainsmen as well as backwoodsmen.
From Thomas Hart Benton by Roosevelt, Theodore
