frontiersman
frontiersman
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noun
Settling with this frontiersman is not necessarily settling for; waiting for the next would not be in misty, vain hope.
a person, especially a man, living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
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In the film, Green B. Jamison, another Kentucky 'frontiersman' , will use an iron-mounted Tennessee rifle crafted in Branson's workshop.
As a torchbearer of American history, Cooper saw the 'frontiersman' as a dying breed; men caught between two worlds without a home.
The conflict between 'frontiersman' and aboriginal, between white and black, between the ‘native’ American citizen and the ethnic immigrant are largely effaced.
Tom Horn, legendary 'frontiersman' , is wandering through the prairies of Wyoming.
But so potent was the mythical figure that travelers encountering the slight, soft-spoken 'frontiersman' came away disappointed.
After the war, Lindsey had followed in the footsteps of 'frontiersman' Daniel Boone and gone to Kentucky.
The courage and honor, the militarism and violence of the 19th century 'frontiersman' , soldier and cowboy remains part of the present day Texas culture, the Encyclopedia notes.
It was seen as the key to the defence of Texas, and among those willing to protect it were Jim Bowie - renowned knife fighter - and David Crockett, the famous English 'frontiersman' .
It was a chaotic, 'frontiersman' 's existence, he said.
This inexhaustible source of pure water was a marvel to Indian and 'frontiersman' alike prior to the 19th century.
It is conceivable that some hard-working early American 'frontiersman' might hold to such a belief, but difficult to understand how such a contention could come out of Spain, of all places.
But even if every tall tale were true, neither Crockett nor any other American 'frontiersman' before or after had as much of an impact on American history as Christopher Carson.
Goldwater loved for the Eastern press to write about him as a sort of 'frontiersman' , and generally it obliged.
Cherokee women and European traders or 'frontiersman' sought each other to gain access to goods or territory and to cement alliances.
In preparation for the attack the colonel had 'frontiersman' Jim Beckwourth - a former slave - rousted from his Denver home and pressed into service (on pain of death) as an involuntary scout.
He argued that the typical Australian 'frontiersman' was not a small, individualist farmer but a shearer or drover, and that his outlook was not individualist but collectivist.
For about a month I was a spare, sinewy 'frontiersman' in fringed buckskin, with crinkly little lines about the eyes and a slow laconic drawl…
Settling with this 'frontiersman' is not necessarily settling for; waiting for the next would not be in misty, vain hope.
Some of the most famous 'frontiersmen' were Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery expedition.
Initially the 'frontiersmen' turned on the Indians in an attempt to move them off the land.
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