frontiersman
Americannoun
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frontiersmen
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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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The frontiersman poet Joaquin Miller was assigned to write about a week spent on Wall Street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025
He looked every inch the frontiersman — except for the swimming pool in the background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
This took place over the objections of figures such as Tennessee frontiersman and congressman Davy Crockett, humanitarian organizations and, of course, the tribes themselves.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 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
The film offers rare representation for Black cowboys, frontiersmen and lawmen who have largely been written out of Hollywood’s cinematic depictions of the Old West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 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
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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