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frontiersmen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frontiersman \Fron"tiers*man\, n.; pl. Frontiersmen. A man living on the frontier.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of frontiersman English)
Wikipedia
The Frontiersmen is a group of students from the University of Houston that are involved in many university events including athletic games. The Frontiersmen began as a tradition at the university in 1948.
Usage examples of "frontiersmen".
Crowded in next to them were frontiersmen and Piedmontese with coon-skin caps and leather jackets, promiscuously spitting jets of tobacco.
If there was any graceful way to sidestep the problem, it would have to come from frontiersmen themselves.
Jackson and the same sort of rude, crude, uncouth southern frontiersmen who composed his army.
Those swamps weren't exactly impenetrable—Latour knew that Jackson's Indian allies and many of his frontiersmen would manage in them quite handily.
American frontiersmen and Cherokees were somewhat accustomed to this sort of terrain, but it was completely foreign to Wellington's veterans.
That wasn't surprising since, like most American frontiersmen, he was probably only a generation—if that—removed from Scotland or the Scot settlements in Ireland.
And freedmen, unlike white frontiersmen, didn't grow up with muskets in their hands.
To the settlers he was the right arm of defense, a fitting leader for those few implacable and unerring frontiersmen who made the settlement of the West a possibility.
If what these frontiersmen asserted was true, then the ministers' zeal had struck them blind.
The frontiersmen stood in groups, watching the savages with an interest which showed little or no concern.
Years of war and bloodshed, of merciless cruelty at the hands of redmen, of the hard, border life had rendered these frontiersmen incapable of compassion for any savage.
Particularly striking were the frontiersmen from the forests of what was then the west.
Although the frontiersmen disliked the easterners, it was war with Spain they wanted, not separation from the Atlantic seaboard.
Several westerners were got up like frontiersmen while their squaws, on the other hand, affected the latest Paris fashions.
Initially the nine villages on the lakes were no more than the shanties where individual frontiersmen had staked out a claim on a particularly good fishing hole.