frontierman

Bounty hunter Cogburn is a caricature of the hard-drinking frontierman.

Michael Giltz: DVDs: How Good Is Matt Damon? Damn Good Michael Giltz 2011

Bounty hunter Cogburn is a caricature of the hard-drinking frontierman.

Michael Giltz: DVDs: How Good Is Matt Damon? Damn Good Michael Giltz 2011

He isn't a frontierman, or even cavalla, but I've heard he is a good military officer for all that.

Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

Then -- like his predecessor, the original frontierman -- disgusted with civilization and its refinements -- he migrated to more congenial regions, and, in the scenes of his former triumphs, was heard of no more.

Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

Of this class, there are two sub-divisions: the floating, transitory, and erratic frontierman -- including the hunter, the trapper, the scout and Indian-fighter: men who can not be considered _citizens_ of any country, but keep always a little in advance of permanent emigration.

Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

Instead of a national aristocracy the result was a military colony or Pale, between the inhabitants of which and the natives raged a perpetual border war, as savage as that between the settlers at the Cape and the Kaffirs, or that between the American frontierman and the Red Indian.

Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866

While prostrate, and almost smothered with his foes, the athletic frontierman gave his loon-call, in a manner that would have excited laughter under circumstances less terrific.

The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820

During the hour that was suffered to intervene, in order that the darkness might deepen before the frontierman took his departure, the different individuals occupied themselves in their customary modes, the hunter, in particular, passing most of the time in making further enquiries into the perfection of the rifle already mentioned.

The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820

"He was a _poor_ fellow, as you say; and a poor frontierman too, though he came out to show his skill among us ignoranters.

Pathfinder; or, the inland sea James Fenimore Cooper 1820