frontiersman

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But he was neither a soldier nor a frontiersman, and since the retreat into the Alamo he had done all that man could do He rose at last and went out.

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  1. noun A man who lives on the frontier.

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  • It was a fitting climax to the schooling of a frontiersman, and like so much else, self-taught. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • Certainly a wife was a necessity for a frontiersman, but increasingly it appeared that to Crockett, Elizabeth was only that. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • It employed every cliché of the frontiersman, and then took the backwoods vernacular already so closely associated with Crockett and exaggerated it even more into something so ignorant and ungrammatical that Crockett himself was angered at the caricature. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • But it was the old story, and there was Trotter at his elbow expressing confidence in his ability as a frontiersman-- an opinion Will fully shared, for a man knows what he can do. —  Last of the Great Scouts, The Life Story of William F. Cody
  • "Old Hickory" was the first populist president, an ex-frontiersman who fought the money establishment and identified with the little guy. —  Philly.com - Latest Videos
 

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/frənˈtɛrzmən/
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