| 单词 | frontiersman |
| 例句 | In the 1880s, John Florer, a Kansas frontiersman who referred to Osage territory as “God’s country,” established the first trading post in Gray Horse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Smith was the last of the true frontiersmen; Howard was paving Smith’s West under the urgent wheels of his automobiles. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At school, he stood out for not only being the best sertanista, or frontiersman, but also as a good athlete. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z No true frontiersman would ever stoop to use it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But this legacy of the frontiersman is not a new thing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The tradition of the tough and versatile frontiersman is true but not exclusive. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every man is free,” the frontiersman Robert Rogers told a disbelieving British audience, referring to Indian villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But for its compactness, functionality, aesthetic charm and the fact it makes me feel like a metrosexual frontiersman, I have fallen in love with it. Kitchen gadgets review: the Ozpig – the vaguely druidic way to heat your patio and cook a chicken 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The events in “The Imitation Game” were a little too convenient to be real and “The Revenant” added an entire subplot, including a murdered son, to justify the revenge saga of wounded frontiersman Hugh Glass. ‘Tell the judge I love my wife’: The brilliant simplicity of ‘Loving’ 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z In “The Taking of Jemima Boone,” the historical mystery author Matthew Pearl makes his nonfiction debut with a factual thriller about the kidnapping of the famous frontiersman Daniel Boone’s daughter Jemima in 1776. What the Kidnapping of Daniel Boone’s Daughter Tells Us About Life on the Frontier 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z As frontiersmen or their descendants, these heroes aren't required to stand on ceremony. Oscars 2013: what the nominations say about America 2013-02-21T16:00:00Z Parker's career then leveled off before he made a TV comeback from 1964-1970 in the title role of the TV adventure series "Daniel Boone" - also based on a real-life American frontiersman. Fess Parker, TV's `Davy Crockett,' dies at 85 2010-03-18T21:03:00Z The tale of honest frontiersmen threatened by bad guys is one reliable standby of the genre; another is the enthusiastic retelling of famous lives. Westerns by Larry McMurtry, Craig Johnson, David Fuller, Jeff Guinn “Yellowstone” offers Dutton as an unstable amalgam of frontiersman and Mob boss. “Yellowstone,” Reviewed: Kevin Costner Rasps an Ode to Cowboy Toughness 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z They did Harry Potter and space movies and monster movies and movies about American frontiersman. 'The 33' Director: Every Line Is a 'Fight' for Women in Hollywood 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Salvation came with the role of a frontiersman less complex than Crockett. Fess Parker obituary 2010-03-18T23:30:00Z There are few hints of the rugged existence forged by the original French frontiersmen who lived here, especially with structures such as Heinz Field, home to the Pittsburgh Steelers, dominating the Ohio’s northern bank. History buffs trace the steps of a young George Washington through the DMV 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z We envisaged a daring gallop into a land of ranchers, oil barons and frontiersmen. Close up: South by north-east 2011-03-17T16:52:22Z Experimentation was important, but the sound experts faced major challenges for the crucial sequence in which the main character, the frontiersman Hugh Glass, is mauled by a bear. Below the Line: That’s Not Just a Bear You Hear in ‘The Revenant’ 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Occasionally McMurtry presented Call and McCrae as having bouts of laziness and unethical behavior, but for the most part, by humanizing them, he rebranded the fabled Rangers as courageous frontiersmen for the ages. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z It was the most emotional moment in a show that revealed Mr. Morrison as a versatile, hard-driving musical frontiersman leveling the territory separating genres. Review: Matthew Morrison, in Concert, Goes Beyond Genres 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z And yet this very desire for authenticity has turned some of the last truly unreconstructed frontiersmen in America into that least authentic of creatures: the minor celebrity. How Thom Beers Built a Reality-TV Empire 2012-12-16T23:37:47Z I was an urban frontiersman bushwhacking through the hinterlands of civilization. How I found the perfect koshary — an Egyptian delicacy — in Cairo 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z A 19th century roulette table of questionable integrity, once owned by the con-artist frontiersman “Soapy” Smith, is parked next to her car in the garage. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z There are so many ways to be sanctimonious about the recent and abrupt implosion of Gawker, the confrontational news and gossip site that has long positioned itself as the rebel frontiersman of the Internet. Et tu, Gawker: Can Nick Denton’s rebel tabloid empire be saved from slime and self-righteousness? 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z John Quincy Adams, a stodgy, colorless man who was the last of the be-stockinged founding-father aristocracy, was replaced by Andrew Jackson, a crude, uncultivated, impetuous frontiersman with an incendiary temper. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Tom Hanks (as Mister Rogers) ... and other perfect swing candidates. 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Another, Michael Green, called him "a frontiersman and buccaneer". Alan Rogers obituary 2010-07-21T17:50:00Z The Fur Trader’s Look Ms. West scoured the archives of the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, Neb., for clothes worn by early frontiersmen. Beaver Hides, Bear Grease and ‘The Revenant’ 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Appropriately, it is a story about a frontiersman. Beyond borders 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Leonardo DiCaprio is Hugh Glass, the leader of the frontiersman whose struggle against a growing mutiny is complicated when he’s mauled by a grizzly bear — a scene depicted in awesome detail. Watch Leonardo DiCaprio in New 'Revenant' Trailer 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Nick Lyons, the fly-fishing author and publisher, believes the draw for collectors is connected to romantic myths of American frontiersman identity, citing Huckleberry Finn and Daniel Boone. Check Your Basement for Old Fishing Gear 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Leonardo DiCaprio plays frontiersman Hugh Glass, who suffers a mauling at the meaty paws of an angry mama bear, only to learn that the cruelty of man is much colder. Review: There's Lots of Suffering in The Revenant, But Bear With It 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z "Marrying the introspection of the nocturnal stoner with the exploration of a troubadour frontiersman" – Matador press release. New band of the day ? No 961: Kurt Vile 2011-02-04T16:59:02Z The state would create the “cow punchers” of Western legend, nurture a cowhand nicknamed Billy the Kid and produce the famed frontiersman Kit Carson. In New Mexico, on the Cowboy Trail of Jack Thorp 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z "First, the frontiersman, then the pioneer, the farmers and the towns. Then I understood, in my life, I represented a whole period of American history." Little house of maybe: "American Masters" on fact, fiction and the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z She is also a descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, and a distant relative of Daniel Boone, the frontiersman and explorer. Conservative and a Vegan in New York. Wait! You Are, Too? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z That father materializes briefly as a gentle, spectral frontiersman from an earlier age. Review: Arthur Miller’s Dying ‘Salesman’ Is Reborn in London 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Often free of commercial concerns and the controlling hand of a parent company, browser developers continue to earn themselves a reputation as game design's creatively risky frontiersmen. Browser games round-up 2012-07-21T23:05:41Z When she runs through that forest, and even when she falls, there’s something of the American frontiersman in her, as if she were Natty Bumppo reborn and resexed. Movie Review: ?The Hunger Games? Movie Adapts the Suzanne Collins Novel 2012-03-22T12:00:01Z James P. Beckwourth, a fur trapper and frontiersman, established a route through the Sierras at the beginning of the California Gold Rush. A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Scores of Brits, Scots, colonists, frontiersmen and farmers were slaughtered in a depraved scene of carnage after traveling some three months and arriving within miles of Fort Duquesne. History buffs trace the steps of a young George Washington through the DMV 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z His largely silent performance in “The Revenant” as a severely wounded frontiersman, will almost assuredly bring him a sixth nomination — and very likely an ultimate win, Oscar diviners agree. Best Picture Race Puts Fox in a Tight Spot 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Along with characters who remain vivid two centuries later, such as the frontiersman Natty Bumppo and his companion Mohican Chief Chingachgook, Cooper created another enduring persona: that of the professional American novelist. James Fenimore Cooper — not just your grandpa’s favorite author 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “Maybe it was time to swap the rugged, frontiersman, self-made man image for that of a more avuncular statesman,” he said. A Trove of Lincoln Artifacts Heads to Auction 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Out West, we always assumed the end might be near. We still imagined ourselves frontiersmen, despite the connectedness of 2014. It could have been my family: Living in mudslide country 2014-03-25T23:00:00Z Ada, the heroine, is a mute Scot who is sold into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman. How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano 2012-07-30T17:30:44Z To avoid confusion with Davy Jones of the Monkees, he renamed himself after the 19th-century American frontiersman and the hunting knife associated with him. David Bowie dies at 69; mesmerizing performer and restless innovator 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Taking in the splendor of the Astor House hotel, which opened in 1836, the frontiersman and politician Davy Crockett is said to have exclaimed: “Lord help the poor beavers and bears!” A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z DiCaprio’s character, Hugh Glass, is a white frontiersman and wilderness guide who has lived among Native Americans for years and can understand several Native languages. “The Revenant”: Leo’s amazing — but is this revenge western more than a live-action Roadrunner cartoon? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Hugh Glass was a frontiersman working in the upper Missouri river area in the early years of the 19th century. How historically accurate is The Revenant? 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z In the visitor center, I was schooled on westward expansion, frontiersman Daniel Boone and his role in carving out the Cumberland Gap, the primary route west by way of Kentucky. A restless Virginia resident finds sights that evoke the West within driving distance 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Audubon was part frontiersman, part artist, and possessed a rare, almost unequaled ability to observe, catalog and paint the birds he observed in the wild. Rare Audubon `Birds of America' to be auctioned 2010-12-07T16:06:00Z A half-century later, that encounter has become the life’s work of this former Seattle dentist turned Alaskan frontiersman. ‘Ranger of the Lost Art’ uncovers hidden history of national park posters 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z This took place over the objections of figures such as Tennessee frontiersman and congressman Davy Crockett, humanitarian organizations and, of course, the tribes themselves. 'Killers of the Flower Moon' is but one story of destructive policies against Native Americans | Op-Ed 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z In 2016, he finally won an Oscar, after four previous nominations, for his performance as a vengeance-hungry frontiersman in “The Revenant.” 'Titanic' made Leonardo DiCaprio a Hollywood heartthrob. He's been avoiding it ever since 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z On television, Ames was likely best known for his role as Mingo, the Oxford-educated Native American in the 1960s adventure series “Daniel Boone” that starred Fess Parker as the famous frontiersman. Ed Ames, ’50s pop singer with Ames Brothers and ’60s TV star in ‘Daniel Boone,’ dies at 95 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z Lee and his ilk make out these California quitters to be like Tennessee’s frontiersmen of yore, mythologized as brave pioneers who tamed a wild, untapped land even as they largely settle in suburbs. Column: With In-N-Out, Tennessee officials are double-doubling down on California 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Morantz, his son said, would often cite a maxim attributed to the folk-hero frontiersman: “Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.” Paul Morantz, crusading lawyer once attacked with rattlesnake, dies at 77 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z One made in the late 1950s, called the Davy Crockett after the frontiersman who died at the Alamo, weighed about 70 pounds; it looked like a large watermelon with four fins. Russia’s Small Nuclear Arms: A Risky Option for Putin and Ukraine Alike 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Forming a mob known as the Paxton Boys, these frontiersmen attacked a nearby group of Conestoga of the Susquehannock tribe. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Canfield also introduces themes related to the American frontiersmen’s cruel treatment of the natives — a note of seriousness that, while admirable, conflicts with the film’s overall tone. Review: 'Not Okay' tackles the seductiveness of internet celebrity, plus more weekend movies 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Kit Carson was a 19th-century frontiersman and was known for his involvement in massacres of local Native American tribes. Park renamed to honor Native American village 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The two brothers had lost their father in a pre-Revolutionary fight with pioneers, and then lost home after home when invading frontiersmen attacked their villages. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In a state whose small population allows for two senators but only one representative, Mr. Young, who cultivated the image of a rugged frontiersman with outsize clout in Washington, was sometimes called Alaska’s “third senator.” Don Young, Alaska Congressman and Dean of the House, Dies at 88 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z A slogan of the day, “Adams who can write/Jackson who can fight,” captured the contrast between Adams the aristocrat and Jackson the frontiersman. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Known for his salty language and frontiersman’s demeanor, he decorated his office with a 900-pound totem pole and a collection of hunting trophies, including the pelt of a bear he claimed to have strangled himself. Don Young, dean of the House of Representatives, dies at 88 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Lewis asked fellow frontiersman William Clark to go with him. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it surprising that the president of Yale accused Maine frontiersmen of “prodigality, thoughtlessness of future wants, profaneness, irreligion, immoderate drinking, and other ruinous habits?” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z 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. These are the real-life figures that inspired Netflix's 'The Harder They Fall' 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z After ten days, however, the mission was taken and all but a few of the defenders were dead, including Travis and James Bowie, the famed frontiersman who was also a land speculator and slave trader. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z According to historians, the North Rim herd was introduced to the area after a frontiersman's failed attempt to interbreed bison with cattle in the early 1900s. Grand Canyon lottery to kill bison gathers 45,000 entries 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z For most of the trip thereafter, the crew of Civil War veterans, trappers and frontiersmen would portage the major rapids. Reed raft stands the test of one of the West’s epic journeys 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Federalists surely groaned at such bombast but pugnacious frontiersmen cheered it. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z President Grant gives a frontiersman the power to make peace with Indians roused by a renegade. Movies on TV this week: 'Finding Nemo' on Freeform and more 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z The requisite founding fathers, military leaders and frontiersmen mingle with civil rights activists and entertainers. Column: Trump trolls us on his way out the door with his garden of heroes plan 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z In 1917, legendary Western frontiersman and showman William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody died at his sister’s home in Denver at age 70. Today in History 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z As British troops approached Louisiana in December 1814, Jackson declared martial law in New Orleans to compel all available men — militias, frontiersmen, pirates and the enslaved — to repel the British. Trump loyalists harboring martial law fantasies don’t know their history 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The deal protects a region that is eight times the size of San Francisco and remains very much as 19th century frontiersman Kit Carson experienced it. A thorny land conservation dispute takes root in the wilds of Tejon Ranch 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent’s girlfriend, followed by trouble. Movies on TV this week: 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z The argument that is made to white people is "you are the frontiersmen, you're the rugged individualists." Historian Timothy Snyder warns that America is already in its own "slow-motion Reichstag Fire" 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z At one point workers began removing a plaque beneath a bust of Andrew Lewis, before someone pointed out that the frontiersman was not on the list. Confederate memorials quietly removed from Virginia Capitol overnight 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z I'm talking about the frontiersman and Indian killer who died at the Alamo. "The bleeding wound": How Trump's presidency proves Osama bin Laden won 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z One hero who made it onto Trump’s hero list, however, was frontiersman Daniel Boone, who fought Native Americans in wars and skirmishes throughout his life. Historians question Trump’s choice of ‘heroes’ for national garden monument 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z The same goes for Emily Blunt hiding from those extraordinarily ugly aliens, or a pair of frontiersmen stealing milk from a rich man’s cow. Analysis | Wish you could watch the new James Bond or ‘Black Widow’? Here are similar movies to stream instead. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z They featured a fictionalized version of the real-life Western character Luther Sage “Yellowstone” Kelly, a soldier, frontiersman, hunter and scout. Montana novelist remembered as a ‘writer’s writer’ 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Sumney is preparing to release his highly anticipated second album, græ, which will complete his evolution from highly publicised indie prospect to singular musical frontiersman. ‘I definitely rage against being classified as R&B’: the strange, beautiful music of Moses Sumney 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z Freelancers are 2020’s rugged individualist frontiersmen, living off the fat of corporations, owing nobody anything. The optimization trap: what you give up when you hustle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z While Trump skated quickly through some policy proposals, he also invoked the names of American folk heroes, such as the old-time lawman Wyatt Earp, frontiersman Davy Crockett and sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Trump the showman honors provocative talk-show host Limbaugh 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z And, of course, there is the frontiersman persona, which Don Jr. pushes so hard. Review | Donald Trump Jr.’s ‘Triggered’ reads like a campaign book for 2024 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Andrew Jackson was a roughneck frontiersman who rose up on the frontier. Donald Trump's favorite president: Andrew Jackson as father of the "white republic" 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z His father, Thomas Boone Pickens — a distant relative of the legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone — was a lawyer for the Phillips Petroleum Company who speculated on oil leases. T. Boone Pickens Is Dead; Oil Magnate and Corporate Raider Was 91 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Pickens — a distant relative of frontiersman Daniel Boone — was one of a handful of fearsome, high-stakes corporate raiders who helped define the Reagan-era boardroom scene and who set a raucous tone at shareholder meetings. T. Boone Pickens, Texas oil tycoon who led legendary corporate raids, dies at 91 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Trapping traditions date back to the Spanish colonial era and include celebrity 19th century frontiersman Kit Carson. Trapping-ban bill signals shift in attitudes toward animals 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Her characters were frequently hardscrabble frontiersmen with poetic souls, loggers and fishermen and truck drivers who “eat and drink like Henry VIII,” as she put it. Edith Iglauer, magazine writer and memoirist of Canadian life, dies at 101 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z “Our state was formed by rugged frontiersmen and women risking everything,” Mr. Cruz told reporters last week. For Beto O’Rourke, a Road to Victory Winds Through Rural East Texas 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Riding into town as an outlaw frontiersman, I suddenly felt like a tragic anachronism. Red Dead Redemption 2: three hours with the most anticipated game of the year 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z They also see themselves as the last frontiersmen, fighting for freedom. Religious faith or child abuse? A new documentary investigates 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z At 63, Searle still cuts a frontiersman’s profile; a cutting-horse competitor and former bank manager, he is descended from a prominent ranching family and formerly served as county supervisor. The Water Wars of Arizona 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Then, as now, the idea of government-run housing was maligned as anticapitalist and socialist; it clashed with a national ethos wrapped up in visions of the frontiersman and the self-made entrepreneur. The Towers Came Down, and With Them the Promise of Public Housing 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Audubon was a frontiersman, a naturalist and an artist of such creativity and power that his signature work, a first-edition set of “The Birds of America,” commanded $11.5 million at auction in 2010. Opinion | Here’s who — and what — America wouldn’t have had without Haitians 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Riding into town as outlaw frontiersman Arthur Morgan, I suddenly felt like a tragic anachronism. Red Dead Redemption 2: three hours with the most anticipated game of the year 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Space entrepreneurs speak of a new “gold rush” and compare their mission to that of the frontiersmen, or the early industrialists. How a tax haven is leading the race to privatise space 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The Dark Tower Based on Stephen King's series of novels about a young boy and a frontiersman knight on an interdimensional quest. Movie openings, Aug. 4 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z "Like the frontiersman and the forty-niner, the traditional cowboy is a peculiarly American type, now following them into an honorable extinction," the story noted. A 'Last Look' at the Old-Time American Cowboy 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z The homicide rate among black Americans, notes Jill Leovy, a writer on murder in America, is similar to that among Arabs in some parts of Israel’s occupied territories and American frontiersmen in the 18th century. Crime and despair in Baltimore 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The weekly newspaper was founded by Walter Colton, the judicial and administrative leader of Monterey, and Robert Semple, a frontiersman from Kentucky. California Today: Everywhere You Look, $1 Million Homes 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Based on Stephen King's series of novels about a young boy and a frontiersman knight on an interdimensional quest. Every single movie coming out this summer 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z A departure from the mannered elite who had been elected before him, the frontiersman son of Scots-Irish immigrants was known as “the people’s president.” Trump cites Andrew Jackson as his hero — and a reflection of himself 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s a consequence of our federalist system, which itself is a consequence of the frontiersman’s attitude of American settlers and immigrants — self-governing in lifestyle, Protestant or unorthodox in religion, contemptuous of distant authority. Opinion | Trump’s populism isn’t fascism. So what is it? 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z This winter, hip-hop frontiersman Chance the Rapper made music history when he earned seven Grammy nominations for a release that is not available for purchase. In the digital deluge, what distinguishes one music streaming service from the other? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z At fifty, with graying whiskers and a broad, lonely face, he has the soulful air of a sepia-era frontiersman. Mike Mills’s Anti-Hollywood Family Films 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z In the meantime, he said, it is operating as a project of the Montana-based Boone and Crockett Club Foundation, named for frontiersmen Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. Offer of access to Trump and family at fundraiser is pulled back, but ties remain 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Native American student groups wanted the University of New Mexico to scrap the seal that depicts a rifle-toting frontiersman and a sword-carrying Spanish conquistador. University of New Mexico keeps seal despite racial concerns 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Native American student groups want the University of New Mexico to scrap the seal that depicts a rifle-toting frontiersman and a sword-carrying Spanish conquistador. University of New Mexico to vote on seal amid racial fears 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z More than 200,000 Indiana men, many of them hardworking farmers and frontiersmen, joined the ranks of the Union Army, most of them through volunteer Hoosier regiments, throughout America’s bloodiest war. Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Here I befriended the “lady explorer” Isabella Bird, who scaled the Rocky Mountains and survived the winter in a cabin cooped up with frontiersmen. The Insomnia Machine 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z This led me to wonder about suggestions that the hipster may represent some form of reincarnated frontiersman/woman or pioneer. Hipsters and artists are the gentrifying foot soldiers of capitalism | Stephen Pritchard 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The University of New Mexico board of regents voted last week to keep a Spanish conquistador and a frontiersman on the seal after months of forums and public input. University of New Mexico keeps seal despite racial concerns 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Alexis de Tocqueville worried about frontiersmen withdrawing from society and believing that they “owe nothing to any man”. Normalising narcissism 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z And we’re talking about Crockett High, as in Davy Crockett, the white frontiersman who died alongside slaves and other blacks at the Alamo. Mayte Lara Ibarra, ‘undocumented’ valedictorian, reminds immigration still an issue 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Native American student groups want the University of New Mexico to drop the seal that depicts a rifle-toting frontiersman and a sword-carrying Spanish conquistador. University of New Mexico eyes seal amid racial concerns 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The story that highlights the Second Amendment, frontiersmen, militias, and the desires and character of the American gun owner is not to be found in the pages of this book. Our gun myths are all wrong: The real history behind the Second Amendment clichés that have sustained our lethal gun culture 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z "He was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee and brought acclaim to the state," Coffman said of the legendary congressman and frontiersman, who died at the Battle of the Alamo. Tennessee's governor vetoes Bible as state book 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z The University of New Mexico’s official seal, which depicts a Spanish conquistador and a frontiersman, is drawing accusations of racism. University of New Mexico students denounce official seal as racist 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z The frontiersmen and the dangers of the plains. Guns in America were no big deal, until big business made us love them 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Could DiCaprio, the overwhelming favorite to win the lead actor Oscar for his turn as the suffering frontiersman in "The Revenant," and Winslet both leave the Academy Awards ceremony carrying trophies? Five things to watch for at tonight's Oscars, including a 'Titanic' reunion and lots of Chris Rock 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z From abandoned astronauts to testosterone-fueled Wall Street traders, dogged reporters and frontiersmen bent on revenge, it is a man's world in the best picture race at Sunday's Oscars with women again taking supporting roles. It is a man's world (again) in the Oscars best picture race 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Depardieu also took a potshot at "The Revenant", starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a frontiersman who survives a mauling by a bear and makes a superhuman trek in the snowy wilderness. Gerard Depardieu takes aim at Clooney, 'The Revenant' in Berlin 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z It was no surprise that Leonardo DiCaprio won lead actor for his performance in "The Revenant" as a frontiersman who survives a vicious bear attack and searches for his son's murderer. 'The Revenant' wins big at the BAFTAs 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The Revenant, starring Leonardo Di Caprio as a frontiersman fighting for survival, leads the Oscars race with 12 nominations, including best director. Revenant's Inarritu wins top directing award at DGA - BBC News 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Hundreds of costumes, most handmade and cased in a proprietary wax concoction, provide the film with its dark, spiritually reverent mood — a violent yet breathtaking look into the life of 19th century frontiersmen. 'The Revenant's' costume designer based Leonardo DiCaprio's look on monks 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The Oscar nominated film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is about a frontiersman fighting for survival after being attacked by a bear. The Revenant storms to top of US box office - BBC News 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, about a frontiersman fighting for survival after being attacked by a bear, is up for 12 Oscars. The Revenant knocks Star Wars off top of UK box office - BBC News 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z When I think of fur trappers, I imagine a frontiersman in a coonskin cap paddling his canoe full of beaver pelts down the Hudson River. Trapping Bobcats for Fur in the U.S. is Going Strong—And It’s Grisly He changed his last name to Bowie, after the knife identified with American frontiersman Jim Bowie. David Bowie, unpredictable rock superstar, dead at 69 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Like Leonardo DiCaprio, who also won a Golden Globe tonight for his role as The Revenant's gristly leading man, frontiersman Hugh Glass. Golden Globes 2016: The Revenant wins Best Picture 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Not only that, home ownership was equated with manliness and power, the rugged frontiersmen of the nineteenth century reborn in the suburban bungalows of the twentieth. The big home ownership lie: Greed, fear and how the big banks exploited a human need 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z This may finally be the film that earns Leonardo DiCaprio his elusive Oscar; he plays a frontiersman who is mauled by a bear and left for dead in the 1820s. How to see all the Oscar contenders without having a nervous breakdown 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Through much of the 19th century, this part of the Bluegrass State was romanticised in stories of rugged frontiersmen and courageous hunters as the epitome of American self-reliance. America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z “The trails of Kit Carson and Boone and Crockett, and the rest of the early frontiersmen,” he declared, “stretch out before the adventurous automobilist.” How Americans Fell in Love With Taking Road Trips 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Founded by groups as diverse as indigenous Native Americans, Dutch merchants, English separatists, Spanish missionaries, French frontiersman and Africans – both free and enslaved – the country’s diversity stretches back four centuries. To teach only 'American exceptionalism' is to ignore half the country's story | James Nevius 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Fort Atkinson served as a hub for the frontiersmen of the fur trade. Fort Atkinson gets battle plan for new life 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z Yet the Tennessee frontiersman, land speculator, lawyer, slave-owner, war hero and seventh president – will continue to gaze out from the $20 bill. Why the U.S. government needs to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In Brasília, a futuristic city whose central urban footprint evokes the shape of an airplane, the frontiersmen agreed that contact was inherently damaging to isolated tribespeople. Feature: Is Brazil prepared for a 'decade of contacts' with emerging tribes? 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Penix followed the famous frontiersman's route into Virginia and through Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. Man retraces Daniel Boone's nearly 240-mile trek to Kentucky 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z "If Portland was a transplanted New England dowager," wrote one historian of the civic competition circa 1880s, "Seattle was a rambunctious frontiersman." Seattle vs. Portland: A doughnut's-hole view 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Gen. Andrew Jackson and his ragtag army of frontiersmen, Creoles, slaves and American Indians was at the Battle of New Orleans 200 years ago. Historians: Battle of New Orleans crucial for US 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z A U.S. marshal likened Utah's "Mountain Man" Troy James Knapp, a snowshoe-clad survivalist who broke into vacation homes over six years before being caught in 2013, to American frontiersman Davy Crockett. Survivalists on FBI 'Most Wanted List' prove elusive 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Knapp, likened by some police and locals to 19th-century American frontiersman Davy Crockett for his outdoor skills and hardiness, pillaged the mountain cabins for food, firearms and other supplies during the winter months. Utah's 'mountain man' survivalist sentenced to prison after guilty pleas 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The libertarian telling of that story stars a frontiersman who carves the American West out of nothing, in radical autonomy, with only a hunting knife. Can you be Catholic and libertarian? They offer clarity about the importance of tensions between frontiersmen eager to push westwards and British officials who—tired of costly wars with Indian tribes—tried to stop them. Colonial museums: A different story 2013-11-14T16:01:02Z One was a frontiersman who boasted of elephant killings; the other edited his college newspaper. Trailside: For Roosevelt Descendants, a Split Among Scions 2013-07-03T02:45:03Z Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, two frontiersmen, had gone to the Alamo before Travis sent the call to arms, and their deaths ensured their places as American heroes. Commander's ''Victory or Death'' letter finally to return to the Alamo 2013-02-09T00:59:57Z When frontiersmen arrived in the area, they typically would settle near a creek, Dr. Metcalf said., Green Blog: Rare Trout Survives in Just One Stream, DNA Reveals 2012-09-25T13:41:03Z When the frontiersman Kit Carson and company arrived here starving in 1846, they ate their mules and pushed on. In California, Banning Bonfires and Library Napping 2012-09-03T00:07:30Z A government minister praised the Irish "frontiersmen" mentality. Tom McFeely: from IRA hunger striker to bankrupt millionaire property developer 2012-08-10T22:00:50Z But not so much in the real endurance races, dominated for so long by those extreme, cantering frontiersmen of the long-gallop, with their glacial race tactics, their pack-hunting, their unimaginable exhaustion-threshold. London 2012: Mo Farah's electric run reawakens an old Olympic folklore 2012-08-04T22:05:34Z Sae-A executives said they considered themselves “frontiersmen” in coming to Haiti. Earthquake Relief Where Haiti Wasn’t Broken 2012-07-06T02:26:54Z Deep inside me, like a blue pool, I am in accord with these frontiersmen. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z He was not so popular with trappers and frontiersmen as his companion. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z In early days, the preachers came in for some rather severe criticisms, although the roughest of the frontiersmen had a genuine reverence for their calling. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z The Virginian frontiersman was, as occasion called, a farmer, a hunter, and a warrior, by turns. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z The county was so called "in honor of Louis Wetzel, the distinguished frontiersman and Indian scout, the Boone of Northwestern Virginia." How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z Some of the little band of frontiersmen looked askance at young McCullough. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z The frontiersman would see no point in a story that might delight a common room in Oxford. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Then the frontiersman told him that a little way back on the road he had what he called “a little misunderstandin’ with two men, and now I has to plant ’em.” The Aventures of Buffalo Bill 2012-02-13T03:00:13.357Z He had attempted to engage a body of frontiersmen to join him on the march; but they preferred to remain for the defence of their families. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z The Indians look savage enough to satisfy anyone, and Buffalo Bill and the King of the Cowboys are splendid specimens of frontiersmen. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z His men, too, hardened frontiersmen and Indian fighters as they were, responded almost nervously to his every suggestion of extreme watchfulness. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z On the other hand, the real humor of the frontier is missed by one who has not learned to take seriously the frontiersman's life and who has not entered into his habitual point of view. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z The scheme was not successful, however, and some years later Buffalo Bill got together some friendly Indian chiefs and some frontiersmen and constructed a simple play of the plains which was an immense success. The Aventures of Buffalo Bill 2012-02-13T03:00:13.357Z The thirty frontiersmen withdrew from the city, and soon followed the example of their companions, who had begun to move homeward, leaving their leaders, Smith and Gibson, to adjust their differences with the government. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z With the purpose of suggesting the range of Poe's intellectual interest and of classifying some of his miscellaneous work that does not fall into certain obvious groups, Professor Smith has adopted the term "frontiersman." The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z In both, a self-reliant frontiersman typically served as a bridge between wild nature and community, often demonstrating that for all the gains civilization brought, something noble and pure was being lost. Steve Jobs, Ted Kaczynski and America's Tech Schizophrenia 2011-11-28T15:45:07Z By the close of the year, such had been the rush of settlers back to their old homes, east of the mountains, that but five or six hundred frontiersmen remained in all Kentucky. Stories of the Badger State 2011-11-27T03:00:12.687Z Instantly the men in the bull train—all frontiersmen—made a circle of the wagons, got into the circle themselves, and began firing at the Indians. The Aventures of Buffalo Bill 2012-02-13T03:00:13.357Z Quiet was again restored; when it was found that the alarm was caused by about thirty of the frontiersmen, who,382 with singular audacity, were riding into the city on a visit of curiosity. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Lying flat on his stomach, and concealed as much as possible, behind some driftwood and low, dead brush, he listened intently, and studied the situation with the practical eye of the frontiersman. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z Mr. Reilly was working on the first announcement, to make it read, "The Bullet-Pierced Head of the Ferocious Chief Bloody Knife," and to change the frontiersman's name from "Black Panther" to "Dead-Shot Bill." The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z We had not gone very far on our way when we met an old frontiersman and prince of scouts, Amos Chapman, taking a band of Cheyenne Indians to Camp Supply to draw their rations. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z He must be as alert and as good a frontiersman in the knowledge of Indian warfare as he was a good horseman. The Aventures of Buffalo Bill 2012-02-13T03:00:13.357Z Born in Savannah, of a French father and a Virginian mother, he was a strange combination of aristocrat and frontiersman. Gentlemen Rovers 2011-10-22T02:00:27.907Z Many new settlers had moved here, and some of the frontiersmen had gone farther west. Pioneer Day Exercises 2011-10-19T02:00:21.770Z The old man's a high-toned Englishman going camping and fishing, and, by what she said, the younger girl's struck on frontiersmen. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Just as sure as he pitched into a force of armed frontiersmen, they would appeal to the courts, and public sentiment would be dead against him. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z The cowboys and frontiersmen who ride are the same men who used to live on the plains and herd cattle, and the ponies they ride are the bucking bronchos of the West. The Aventures of Buffalo Bill 2012-02-13T03:00:13.357Z It was a sentence of death which Echeandia had had pronounced on this American frontiersman, and both he and Smith knew it. Gentlemen Rovers 2011-10-22T02:00:27.907Z The work hardened and developed him, and he readily enough turned into a regular frontiersman of the better and richer sort. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z But the lives of some of these frontiersmen furnish incidents from which we might well take lesson. Stories of Old Kentucky 2011-09-23T02:00:21.413Z Burns had the frontiersman's contempt for a chimney-pot hat, and never seemed one so incongruous as this,—her riding head-gear which in the midst of her wailings Mrs. Winn clasped to her heaving breast. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z Helpless she listened knowing full well what the old frontiersman's next word would be. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z Trained in all the wiles of Indian warfare, the frontiersmen succeeded in reaching the outskirts of the British camp before they were challenged by the sentries. Gentlemen Rovers 2011-10-22T02:00:27.907Z It may as well be frankly admitted that the conduct of the American frontiersmen all through this contest can be justified on no possible plea of international morality or law. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z It gave peace to the frontiersmen at the time the colonies were beginning the crucial contest with England and for a while prevented that barbaric warfare waged by the British and Indians united. Stories of Old Kentucky 2011-09-23T02:00:21.413Z She could hear the faint, muffled sound of shots with which the benighted but jubilant frontiersmen were hailing the coming of the sacred anniversary, like some midwinter Fourth of July, with exuberant and explosive hilarity. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z "There's jest a chance, I think, that she may have suspicioned the storm an' got out of the ca�on," suggested the old frontiersman. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z The men were contentedly eating their hard-tack and bacon and drinking their coffee from huge tin cups with the relish of old frontiersmen. Trumpeter Fred A Story of the Plains 2011-09-15T02:00:11.393Z Such a man could not bind himself to the task of patient colonization at Fort Frontenac, or even find satisfaction in the more varied and exciting life of a frontiersman and trader. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z Again the frontiersmen were doomed to disappointment when news came that the government had postponed the admittance of Kentucky, indeed, would refer the question to the new government. Stories of Old Kentucky 2011-09-23T02:00:21.413Z General Crook, as became an old campaigner and frontiersman, was in a rough hunting rig, and in all his staff and line there was not a complete suit of uniform. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z "Heavens!" he cried, actually kicking the prostrate frontiersman as he almost stumbled over him. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z Here game was abundant and everything that a remote, mountainous country could supply to the frontiersman was at hand. Fly Fishing in Wonderland 2011-09-01T02:00:22.230Z Inside were wild and woolly stories of the outlaw Sam Bass, frontiersman and Texas Ranger Bigfoot Wallace, Davy Crockett at the Alamo. Rick Perry goes it alone 2011-08-26T00:30:00Z The difference in the ability to see and recognize natural objects, signs, and indications, between the ordinary city denizen and, for instance, the American Indian or the white frontiersman, hunter, or scout, is something marvellous. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z "The whole Sioux nation has been in camp hereabouts not two weeks ago," says one rugged frontiersman, "and I've been nigh onto ten mile down stream and didn't reach the end of the village." Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z The old frontiersman and the young girl strolled off together. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z Many a hardy frontiersman, who has no sentiment for their preservation and no respect for the law, will take his chances of capture for such a sum. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z The letter, in which this was done, was prompted by a letter from Hutton to a third person giving an account of some abominable murders inflicted by American frontiersmen upon the poor Moravian Indians. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z The sheriff, a big, bearded man who might have sat for the model of one of Frederic Remington's frontiersmen, took time to consider. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z But it even ferociously hairy US frontiersmen thought of camping as something of a luxury. Happy glampers 2011-07-22T06:09:52Z "And what was that?" asked the old frontiersman curiously and innocently. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z This man was no stranger to these frontiersmen. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z Each one was to share in the preparations, and some experienced hunters and frontiersmen were to join in the expedition. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z The guide of course anathematized his gun in the choicest terms known to frontiersmen, and our mouths watered as we thought of what might have been. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z The frontiersmen also demanded that they be allowed to go against the Indians. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z It was a very thoughtful girl indeed who confronted the old frontiersman the next morning. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z The countenance of that stalwart frontiersman evinced no surprise as, alighting from his nag, he learnt what had happened. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z The frontiersmen are greatly disposed to excite each other's imaginations by reports of mines and discoveries, every one of which is fancied to be some new Potosi or El Dorado. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z In the summertime he would ride thirty miles on Sunday, preach three times, and be back home Monday by one o'clock to delve into every kind of rough work as a true frontiersman. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z Indian ravages.—The border war which now occurred was the culmination of a long series of troubles between the frontiersmen of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and the Indians of the Ohio Valley. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z A war-whoop so Indian-like and curdling that it startled every old frontiersman who heard it came suddenly from one of the riders. Erskine Dale?Pioneer 2011-06-13T02:00:32.327Z This is a corps of Irregular Horse, frontiersmen all of them. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Mr. Stuntz is a typical, sensible frontiersman, of American birth, aged about seventy years. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z He had tried in vain to find some resemblance between this long-bearded, rugged frontiersman and the trim young man who had stood before him on that saddest day of his whole life. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z In North Carolina some of the frontiersmen held a meeting at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, and passed resolutions that crown commissions in the colonies were null and void, and that colonial constitutions were suspended. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z With nods of understanding, the two frontiersmen were off at the run, not crossing the open camp, but circling it amongst the trees. The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition 2011-06-06T02:00:10.330Z The summer is well advanced; in fact, it wants only a fortnight to Christmas, and the frontiersmen composing the colonial forces decline to remain any longer doing mere patrol work. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z The generation of pioneers, and frontiersmen not long past, realize as others never can the inherent savagery of the Indians. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z "A pair of typical frontiersmen," said Murray, and Miss Fred was pleased to agree, and add some praise on her own account. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z Ferguson boasted that if the frontiersmen from over the Alleghanies troubled him, he would cross the mountains, lay waste their valleys, and hang their leaders. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z When they returned to camp, they found the two frontiersmen ahead of them. The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition 2011-06-06T02:00:10.330Z It could not be expected, however, that these plain, honest, matter-of-fact frontiersmen should give him credit for possessing a two-sided nature. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z That the show was appreciated by these frontiersmen there can be no doubt. Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus 2011-05-27T02:00:18.113Z Doubtless his association with scouts and camp-followers, largely consisting of fur-traders and frontiersmen, induced a lively interest in their accounts of the western country held by their enemies, the Indian and the Frenchman. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z Ferguson heard of their coming and decided to teach the frontiersmen a lesson. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z The frontiersmen were obliged to devise many contrivances to supply their lack of manufactured things. American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z It was a delicate business, and the honest frontiersman felt thoroughly perplexed. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Estimates placed them at from one to five thousand souls—runaway negroes included—and even the best informed frontiersmen could give only rude guesses on this point. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z After diligent search sweet-willow trees were found with which they managed, by shifts and expedients familiar to frontiersmen, to patch up the carriage so as to go on. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z San Luis Potosí and Southern Coahuila.—For some time the region of Charcas, now called San Luis Potosí, was a sort of No-man's-land between the westward, eastward, and northward moving columns of frontiersmen. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z On the other hand, Boston had refused his “Dancing Bacchante” on grounds that the bacchante was excessively bacchanal, and Denver had spurned his frontiersman group because the Indian was taller than the white men. | 'Rough Boy' Statue May Get More Respect in Brooklyn 2011-03-06T12:00:02Z Re-entering, he strikes a match—a knife, a box of matches, and a bit of reimpje being the proverbial contents of a frontiersman’s pockets, even though they contain nothing else—and begins his exploration. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z It is true, some frontiersmen wear the moccasin; but these were not the foot-prints of white men. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z In those anxious weary hours the girl grew to realize something of the wild, rough life of the frontiersmen. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z To the southward the frontiersmen grasped the opportunity for profit, and soon the Ohio country was frequented by many traders from Virginia and Pennsylvania. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z It was a muzzle-loader of a type generally associated with frontiersmen and Indian fighters, and it was almost as long as Jud was tall. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z At last, as far as the frontiersmen knew, only one great specimen remained. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z Whatever blunders a frontiersman may commit when visiting his neighbor cities in the East, they are never the bashful blunders of a countryman. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Moreover, a Texan frontiersman without a gun over his shoulder—or carried across the pommel of his saddle—is a creature rarely to be encountered upon the prairies. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z Settlers also began to cross the mountains; in 1748 Virginia frontiersmen made a settlement at Draper's Meadow on the Greenbrier River. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z It told you everything you wanted to know if you were a frontiersman, which, Buff pointed out, was very useful. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z Many a frontiersman has been saved from death by realization of this fact; and, bewildered by the ridges, has permitted his dog to lead him into camp. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z At length the young frontiersman took his place among the defenders of his country. A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z Even the long-haired frontiersman sacred to fiction was represented by a specimen or two. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z The frontiersmen held back the Indian allies of the British, and by settlement and conquest secured large areas of the back country. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z These are the very advantages which, with many superficial differences, no doubt, are enjoyed alike by the daughters of frontiersmen and by the daughters of a nobility. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z These Ross men were frontiersmen of the first order. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z Dale marched from Fort Madison on the 11th of November, with Tandy Walker, a noted frontiersman, for his guide. Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. 2010-12-20T17:12:28.183Z Parker went on to play Daniel Boone, another real-life frontiersman, in a 1960s TV show before retiring. Davy Crockett's Parker dies at 85 2010-03-19T09:41:00Z The Appalachian barrier.—To reach the Mississippi Valley the frontiersman was forced to pass the Appalachian barrier, extending from Maine to Georgia. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z But now, though it is hard to imagine, he is taking it all down, like a frontiersman breaking camp. On Avenue A, a Quirky Slice of Faux Frontier Past 2010-02-22T06:50:00Z She had the courage of many generations of frontiersmen and woodsmen, and she had their vision too. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z A large body of frontiersmen marched on Philadelphia with the full intention of revolutionizing the Quaker government, and they would have succeeded but for the unusual preparations for defence. The True Benjamin Franklin Thus the elderly scholar joined the shrewd but youthful frontiersman. The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 One party under Chief Dragging Canoe attacked the settlers about Eaton's Station, but the frontiersmen sallied forth and defeated the Indians at Island Flats. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Consequently, in order to obtain land for themselves, they were forced to go to the interior and to become frontiersmen. Races and Immigrants in America He was even then, as he has since many times proven himself, my superior in all that goes to make up a frontiersman. On the Kentucky Frontier A Story of the Fighting Pioneers of the West But it might be that a legend of the gray, straight frontiersman who was his ancestor had still survived in these remote Oregon wilds. The Voice of the Pack Cartwright had a number of traits that attracted frontiersmen. The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 My turn, at last!” broke from the aged frontiersman’s lips, and a groan followed. Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch The last quarter of the nineteenth century saw the vacant lands finally occupied and the tribe of frontiersmen coming to an end. Races and Immigrants in America The caveman dared not forget these abysses, nor the frontiersman, nor the scientist who fought the witch hunters to bring forth a new truth of Nature. The Year When Stardust Fell But it happened that the recipient of the wire was one of the oldest residents, a frontiersman himself, and it was one of the traditions of the Old West that friendships were not soon forgotten. The Voice of the Pack These men had in their veins the life-blood of England; they built up the Empire and sent forth their sons to be the 'frontiersmen of all the world.' Stand Up, Ye Dead “It’s quite broken mine,” said the old frontiersman, sobbing in his relief at having been thus promptly sought and found by his beloved “lady.” Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch Both Roosevelt and Wood understood the frontiersmen too well to misjudge any breaches of etiquette or to humiliate the extremely sensitive natures of men long used to life in the open. The Career of Leonard Wood “If the robbers are frontiersmen they may be easier to get track of, as you suggest; but won’t they be harder to get?” Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus He had imagination and insight and sympathy; but most of all he had a heritage of wood lore from his frontiersmen ancestors. The Voice of the Pack Unfortunately they are a kind of six-footed beast, always mounted; there isn't a true frontiersman among them. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop “That is so, Harvey,” was the reply, in the brusque tone of the rough frontiersman, and the speaker looked at the magnificent god of day whose last streaks of light were crimsoning the water. Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind With the deftness of an' old frontiersman, he staked out the horses where the grazing was good, and then the three sought the shelter of the rock. Bert Wilson at Panama It was not until half a century later, when there came a Spaniard who was a born frontiersman of the arid lands, that New Mexico was successfully colonized. The Spanish Pioneers But our own frontiersmen were not men to stand any nonsense from wolves or cougars. The Voice of the Pack "With whom our rough frontiersmen will make short work, in sport, if not in deadly earnest." A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois The frontiersman did not reply for a moment, but looked across the river longingly and sad. Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind A keen sense of elation thrilled Bert and Tom, as they fell in behind the old frontiersman, and followed him in Indian file up the path. Bert Wilson at Panama An incident which occurred in 1815-1816 did much to make permanent the hostility of the frontiersmen to the British. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Could it be, after all, that this slender weakling, even now bowed down with a terrible malady, had inherited the true frontiersman's instincts of his ancestors? The Voice of the Pack You are from the far West, if I do not mistake, and our frontiersmen, as a rule, are as deficient in courtly graces as the European aristocrats are sycophantic. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois It is the romance of real history, and Leatherstocking had his prototype in many a brave frontiersman whose deeds were unrecorded, and whose name was never known beyond his own little circle of friends. Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 No one knew this better than the old frontiersman. Bert Wilson at Panama For days the frontiersmen along the reservation border had been wending their way to the Agency. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter They made a song to him, a strange, wild melody that even such frontiersmen as Dan and Lennox could not experience. The Voice of the Pack The latter, however, a fine old frontiersman born and bred, took a different view. Harley Greenoak's Charge “I’ve known that sort of thing happen more than once,” said Shelton, the leader of the party, an experienced frontiersman who had served in two previous wars. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War Again and again they sought to voice their thanks, but the hardy old frontiersman would have none of it. Bert Wilson at Panama Of course she is much better educated; he has the gruff ways of the rich frontiersman, but he is rich and not so much older than she is. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter His ancestors, for literally generations, had been frontiersmen and outdoor naturalists who never wrote books. The Voice of the Pack Once a check occurred, where the thieves had manifestly separated their spoil, but the device was only a blind, and soon solved by such experienced frontiersmen as Brian and Revell. A Veldt Vendetta “Any of you fellows hurt?” sung out the latter, a fine, stalwart frontiersman, who, with several of his men, rode down upon the group. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War They all passed away, and the American frontiersman took their place; he too was followed by the farmer and the vinedresser. The Story of Chautauqua Nevertheless, they had in an instant, yet seemingly in a careless manner, lessened the distance between the right hand and the butt end of their respective six-shooters, for the frontiersman is keen to scent danger. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter His own grandfather had been a hunter and trapper and frontiersman in a certain vast but little known Oregon forest. The Voice of the Pack As for myself, I had undergone some experience of the noble savage in his own haunts, and began to feel quite a seasoned frontiersman. A Veldt Vendetta The frontiersmen, dismounted now, were fighting the savages in their own way, from bush to bush. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War And it may be mentioned in passing that frontiersmen on frontiers never do anything at all resembling as to motive, method or result those things which frontiersmen do in films. Stepsons of Light The frontiersmen both jumped to their feet with one impulse to get hold of their "Sharps," as if to use them at once. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter But most of all he simply studied, as his frontiersmen ancestors had done before him. The Voice of the Pack As long as war threatened the country, the Government was ready to buy all the saltpetre the Kentucky frontiersmen could produce. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Pooh!” growled a burly frontiersman, in tones of ineffable disgust, as he blew into the still smoking breech of his rifle. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War It is a great and neglected truth that frontiersmen on the frontier never ride like the frontiersmen in films. Stepsons of Light He had with him an old frontiersman named Gill, and an Indian who acted as their guide through the forest. The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read It was part of his inheritance from his frontiersmen ancestors, and it freed his wings in the hills. The Voice of the Pack The hero is in this book called Natty Bumppo and the story is one of the primitive life of the frontiersmen of that period. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 One day a considerable force of mounted burghers started for the Transkei—a good typical force—hardened, seasoned frontiersmen all, well mounted, well armed; in fact, a thoroughly serviceable looking corps all round. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War It follows that Charlie See was not riding at a run, as frontiersmen do in the movies. Stepsons of Light The person addressed as Dan was a splendid specimen of a "frontiersman," having all the characteristics of a frank, free American, with the physical advantages of a stalwart "Englisher." Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 Of course he was tall, just as the famous frontiersman had been, but while the elder weighed one hundred and ninety pounds, bone and muscle, this man did not touch one hundred and thirty. The Voice of the Pack For days he drifted down the Ohio in a flat-bottomed boat, searching the uninhabited shores for specimens, and living the life of the frontiersman whose daily food must be supplied by his own exertions. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 The frontiersmen and governing gentry, however, still remained at odds and another cleavage began to appear. A History of the Town of Fairfax In this man's life surprises were not infrequent and now as ever he displayed only the nonchalance characteristic of all typical frontiersmen in moments of crisis. The Song of the Wolf Never a wheel had then entered the deep forests of this western wilderness; the frontiersman and the packhorse were comrades. The Story of Old Fort Loudon Of course his courage, his nerve, had yet to be tested; but the fact remained that long generations of frontiersmen ancestors had left this influence upon him. The Voice of the Pack Here was an opportunity which a frontiersman could not afford to overlook. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon But Wetzel is confident his training and background as a frontiersman and Indian fighter can get you there under cover of darkness. Call Him Savage The first frontiersmen of the Appalachians were those Swiss and Palatine Germans who began flocking into Pennsylvania about 1682. Our Southern Highlanders There were many noisy fire-eaters who took their innings now, in the security of the town, who would become as wordless, later on, as some of the tight-lipped and taciturn frontiersmen were now. Bring Me His Ears Inherited tendencies were in a moment changing this weak, diseased youth into a frontiersman and wilderness inhabitant such as his ancestors had been before him. The Voice of the Pack Thus in the silence of the little cabin these two hardy frontiersmen clasped hands. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon I was jumping aside and reaching for my gun when the frontiersman's quiet voice reached me. Call Him Savage Such was the stuff of which the Appalachian frontiersmen were made. Our Southern Highlanders He risked nothing by the move, for the store was the Mecca of frontiersmen, and a trip to St. Louis was hardly complete without a visit to the shop. Bring Me His Ears The tail lashed back and forth, and now it had begun to have a slight vertical motion that frontiersmen have learned to watch for. The Voice of the Pack Besides the frontiersmen in the fort were two women, two children and two slaves. Through Our Unknown Southwest For a guy who was as nutty as peanut brittle, he was certainly convincing in his role of frontiersman. Call Him Savage The first generation of Pennsylvania frontiersmen knew no laws but those of their own making. Our Southern Highlanders There is a polish in his work, even in the rough materials that army officers find in our far Southwest, among Indians and white frontiersmen, that reminds the reader of Irving’s sketches.”—Bulletin, Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians Forsyth's company will be made up of soldiers from the late war, frontiersmen, and scouts. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas But the life of a frontiersman, besides being perilous at all times, is hardly ever anything but disagreeable, despite the curious fascination which it holds for those who follow it. Through Apache Lands Back in the seventeen hundreds a frontiersman named Lewis Wetzel murdered a lot of Indians—men, women and children. Call Him Savage Most mountaineers are good shots with such arms, though not so deadly quick as the frontiersmen of our old-time West—in fact, they cannot be so quick without wearing the weapon exposed. Our Southern Highlanders They were the pioneers, the frontiersmen, the squatters--the pathfinders in our political history. History of the Constitutions of Iowa My impression of frontiersmen had been shaped by the loud threats, the swagger, and much profanity of the border people of the Territorial and Civil War days. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas The frontiersman said he had heard of Black Canyon in Idaho. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers The sun was above the horizon by this time and the young frontiersman discovered that his present position was the equivalent of a box seat on the fifty-yard line. Call Him Savage Far and wide, frontiersmen may have heard of the railroad's coming, and their first move would be, perhaps had been, a rush to the land-office to file upon quarter-sections touching the survey. The Plow-Woman It commences with the pioneers and hunters in the East, and continues on to the frontiersmen and soldiers in the West. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters While Washington and his "ragged Continentals" fought for our independence, "the rear guard of the Revolution," as the frontiersmen were called, were not less busy. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools As it advanced, however, ominous rumors of a projected attack by the hill savages and Chinese frontiersmen reached the ears of its members. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Leaving out the fact that the "dark and bloody ground" frontiersman had been dead nearly a hundred and fifty years, this man was a lot handsomer, with entirely different features. Call Him Savage "Buffalo Bill"—scout, pathfinder, hunter and Indian fighter is the most famous of all that great company of frontiersmen who opened up the West for civilization. The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields The Indians were outside, the frontiersmen were inside, and no help near. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters Morgan's Escape from the Indian The hardy frontiersman lay for months hovering between life and death, but finally recovered, and was once more in the thick of the wild warfare. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools They were typical frontiersmen, and settled down in the well-built cabin which they quickly ran up as though they meant to make of it a permanent home. Gold He sought the States; and instead of lingering in effeminate cities, pushed at once into the Far West with an exploring party of frontiersmen. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) The sturdy new settlers, the last pioneers and frontiersmen in the country, are followed, especially along rivers where water power is at hand, by industrial workers. A Stake in the Land I have known men do hard literary work all morning, and then undergo quite as much physical fatigue by way of relief as satisfied this powerful frontiersman for the day. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) "Ask me something hard," replied the old frontiersman. Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget He was no brawler, except as he felt safe, and this young frontiersman was hardly the antagonist he would choose. Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West There was not one of the frontiersmen in the boat who had any comment to make upon any phase of the transaction; indeed, it seemed much in the day’s work to them. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman Once there he placed himself at the head of his army of enraged frontiersmen and marched rapidly on Jamestown. Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 The other day I was living with a farmer in America, an old frontiersman, who had worked and fought, hunted and farmed, from his childhood up. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) "Well, I say!" exclaimed the frontiersman, giving Elam a good looking over, "you are a brave lad, and I know you will come out all right." Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget The writer is confessedly partial to the western frontiersmen. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 The frontiersmen west of the Alleghanies fled east over the mountains to Carlisle, Lancaster, and numbers even continued their flight to Philadelphia. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Thus were the Marylanders made to suffer for the rashness of the Virginia frontiersmen. Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 The eyes of the steed and its master glowed with a wicked light that startled both the old frontiersman and the modern scribe, and set Prince and Nimrod into paroxysms of terror. Jessica, the Heiress Just as long as they talked the hard-headed old frontiersman always came to this advice, and Elam always dismissed it with a laugh. Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget —The savage painted in his true colors from the standpoint of the frontiersman. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 Fashionable gentry took to wearing the plain clothes of frontiersmen, and shirts emblazoned with the words "Liberty or Death" were everywhere. The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 Despite the testimony of the frontiersmen, he had refused to believe the Pamunkeys guilty, and he still relied upon them for assistance against the Susquehannocks. Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 The frontiersman understood the sentiment and respected it. Jessica, the Heiress You may be sure that I was glad to hear the old frontiersman talk in this way. Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget You may call them "barbarians," "rude frontiersmen," or what you will, but it took men such as these to advance the outposts of the nation and to conquer the west. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 Finally, in 1782, the Indians yielded their territory to the frontiersmen. The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 But Bacon's frontiersmen were accustomed to this method of warfare. Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 It would be better, seems to me, to have an old frontiersman living in Pedro’s cabin than a spook.” Jessica, the Heiress "Elam!" said the frontiersman in a tone of contempt. Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget Late on the third of November, the frontiersmen saw for the first time the great prairies of the west, stretching north to Chicago and west to the Mississippi. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 Amply supplied with munitions, guns, and money for patriot scalps received from Hamilton, known among the frontiersmen as the "Hair Buyer", these Indians swarmed across the Ohio River in 1775, 1776, and 1777. The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 On the down trip bags were piled on the roof with a couple of frontiersmen armed with rifles to guard them. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia They overwhelmed the frontiersmen through sheer force of numbers. When the West Was Young Back on the farm of my childhood, the names of Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill and other renowned frontiersmen were ever on the lips of my parents. A Mountain Boyhood Many of the hardy frontiersmen breast the stream, and others pass in a small canoe. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 Have students develop an architectural blueprint for restoring an 18th Century home, including grounds of the gentry, planter, or frontiersman. The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 The main street was alive with strange-looking frontiersmen, trappers, hunters, scouts, soldiers, settlers, railroad laborers, outlaws, prospectors, and miners. The Mountain Divide It housed one hundred and eighty-three lank-haired frontiersmen, a portion of General Sam Houston’s band who had declared for Texan independence. When the West Was Young He declared that the traders robbed the children of the forest, and that every frontiersman wanted the Indians killed so as to get the land. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield Unlike his predecessors, Wayne entertained no distrust of the frontiersmen, but determined to utilize them with telling force. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 His plan is new chiefly in blaming all round—traders, Quakers, Indians, government and frontiersmen. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 The two frontiersmen needed no explanation of what they saw in the scarred and blackened face of the outlaw. The Mountain Divide Six of them, some bareheaded and some with hats whose wide rims dropped low over their foreheads, were clustered about old Davy Crockett, frontiersman and in his day a member of Congress. When the West Was Young Early in the season that already famous frontiersman, Daniel Boone, had been sent to the Falls of the Ohio to lead back to the settlements a party of surveyors. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield Probably not one of that whole party of frontiersmen had ever before seen a deep-sea vessel. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail The ready appeal to the gun, which seemed to be one of the first principles of the frontiersman’s life, was already beginning to lose its repugnance for him. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana The scout, Hawk knew, had the characteristic intuition of the frontiersman; the mental attributes that combine with keen observation and unusually good judgment as aids to success when circumstances are seemingly hopeless. The Mountain Divide There were fourteen gaunt frontiersmen in the hospital, so weak with wounds that they could not drag themselves from their tattered blankets. When the West Was Young For this purpose Major Angus McDonald marched seven hundred militia and frontiersmen over the mountains in the latter part of June. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield The power of the Assembly's acts was not equal to the power of the frontiersmen's muskets. Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 “Tenderfoot” he might be, but they approved his grit, and with frontiersmen grit is all that matters. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana This propensity he inherited not only from his mother, but also from his father, who had been a frontiersman. Sielanka: An Idyll The volume deals with the secret intrigues of statesmen and diplomats in the capitals of America and Europe on the one hand, and with the aggressive, irresponsible movements of impatient frontiersmen on the other. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction Rodney, while seeing the matter largely through his mother’s eyes, nevertheless recalled the words he had heard fall from the lips of the rough frontiersmen. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield Thomas Cresap, an energetic frontiersman, and one of the principal agents of the Company, was directed to blaze a pack-horse trail over the Laurel Hills to the Monongahela. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State A blacksmith in St. Louis had made it for him, assuring him it was an exact replica of the knife designed a couple of years ago by the famed Arkansas frontiersman Jim Bowie. Shaman The younger Dorothy at first shook her head perplexedly and sought to recall this youthful frontiersman; then a flash of recognition broke over her face. The Roof Tree He has generally been accepted as a type of the hardy frontiersman who, in the years following the Revolution, carried civilization westward. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I This was to be better than any gunplay, a gladiatorial combat to delight the hearts of frontiersmen. Rimrock Trail His scheme being approved, he was made a lieutenant-colonel, and at once set out to raise for the expedition a small force of hardy frontiersmen. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State Upon this sudden and terrible ending of the fight appeared a bearded frontiersman who had been trailing the grizzly for half an hour and waiting for light enough to secure a sure shot. Kings in Exile May be heartily recommended to all classes of scouts and frontiersmen.'—Scotsman. Cavalry in Future Wars In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries they were primarily pioneers, frontiersmen, settlers of new country. The Great Gray Plague They could have discovered nothing that would have pleased them more, since coffee was always precious to the frontiersman, and together they uttered a shout of triumph. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain Also in the little army, which finally mustered 297 men, including officers, were frontiersmen from Redstone Old Fort, and other settlements in the valleys of the Ohio and Monongahela. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State He did not draw his Colt's as frontiersmen were prone to do, for he thought that a knock-down fight would show that a man must not stand too much on dignity on the upper Missouri. A Man of Two Countries During the first part Berkeley seems to have dominated the Assembly despite the pro-Bacon majority, during the second part the threat of coercion by Bacon's angry frontiersmen undoubtedly affected all legislation. Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 Besides these Territories there was the unorganized remnant of the Indian country known as Indian Territory, and attracting the covetous glances of frontiersmen in all the near-by Western States. The New Nation Most of them were rough, stern frontiersmen from the Amoskeag Falls, skilled in Indian fighting. Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 He was then about forty years of age, nearly six feet in height, a rough frontiersman, and a noted hunter. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State These ready frontiersmen had a way of taking the words out of his mouth. A Man of Two Countries With hundreds of enraged frontiersmen "within a day's journey", with no force which could be trusted to oppose them, the governor and his friends were in a state of panic. Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 The frontiersmen were able to push back the Indians. The American Empire But I looked on either side, and there stood the grim, stern frontiersmen picking off their men as cool as if they were at a turkey shoot. Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 The atmosphere of the greater part of the story is that of Southern California, with its mingled society of Mexicans, Indians and reckless frontiersmen, and among them the heroine lives and thrives. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life He can speak English as well as I can, but he thinks bad grammar will give him a stand-in with the frontiersmen. A Man of Two Countries When the Indians, driven by hunger, killed any of their cattle or hogs, the frontiersmen "beat and abused them." Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 The position was one of those when the true spirit of the frontiersman is at its highest and grandest pitch. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies Far East and Far West have met, and the homes of the Russian pioneer and American frontiersman are much alike. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia White frontiersmen were imported to guide the army, but according to the testimony of Beckworth, the Rocky Mountain hunter and trapper, all gave up in disgust. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American “If you mean to say, Dave Ellis, that I lay down to a bluff——” Alan was beginning hotly when the old frontiersman interrupted. Brand Blotters In this desperate strait my father alone preserved his coolness; the warlike spirit of the old frontiersman was roused in an instant. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography The history of the frontiersman’s life would fill a record which any soldier might envy. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies Spreading north the frontiersmen had reached the Rappahannock and the Potomac by 1650, and settlers began moving into Lancaster County. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" Indeed, the buckskin clothing and moccasins of the Indian were very generally adopted by the white frontiersman. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American She acknowledged too some fear of this quiet, soft-spoken frontiersman. Brand Blotters "Well, it's terrible thing in this hot weather to be cut off from your water supply," said the old frontiersman. The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders Seth was practical, too; but he also had imagination, which made him the cleverer man of the two in the frontiersman’s craft. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies In him were united those qualities which make the accomplished frontiersman—daring, activity, and circumspection, while he was fitted beyond most of his contemporary borderers to lead and command. Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c. It may be recalled that some Cherokee warriors, returning from Washington's later successful expedition against Fort Duquesne, were murdered in their sleep by white frontiersmen after giving them friendly lodging. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American With every sentence that the other spoke, O’Connor was judging Flatray, appraising him for a fine specimen of a hard-bitten breed—a vigilant frontiersman, competent to the finger tips. Brand Blotters And since they were tender-hearted old frontiersmen they did not intend to spoil her joy. Crooked Trails and Straight It was as Dan had said; he lived near the Reservation, and, well, these men were frontiersmen who knew the ways of the country in which they lived. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies In 1775, he removed to Kentucky, and soon became distinguished among the hardy frontiersmen for firmness, prudence, and humanity. Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c. The buckskin clothing of my race was exceedingly practical as well as handsome, and has been adapted to the use of hunters, explorers, and frontiersmen, down to the present day. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American Here died David Crockett, the famous American frontiersman, whose exploits had Defence of the Alamo made him so popular in Tennessee, that, though unable to read, he was thrice elected to Congress. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) There that immortal frontiersman passed the last years of his life, in the sweet luxury of quiet and freedom; and there he died in the year 1820. Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark It is left to the frontiersman to do the rest. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies I estimated our army at eleven hundred and I thanked God they were all frontiersmen. A Virginia Scout Like all frontiersmen, he had heard horrible stories of Apache torture. The Fighting Edge The Boer frontiersman, with his aggressive habits and ingrained contempt for a dark-skin, disintegrated the Bantu mass before we were ready to undertake the work of reconstruction. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 The bold frontiersman, with his trusty rifle, was often unable to defend his home. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad The poet has plainly been with the frontiersman, and seen the latter's giants. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Charles undoubtedly ranked as high for courage and astuteness as any frontiersman in Virginia. A Virginia Scout Without going into the causes of the Indian troubles, it can safely be said that the frontiersmen generally believed that the tribes were dangerous and not to be trusted. The Fighting Edge And now, worn, weary, but determined, the little command is just in sight of the deep ravine known to frontiersmen for years as Black Cañon. Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Very soon after the outbreak, Colonel H. H. Sibley, an experienced frontiersman, having a thorough knowledge of Indian habits and character, was on the march against them, with about one thousand men. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Then he continued his advance, at the long easy walk that he had learned from the frontiersmen, and soon his shaken nerves were restored. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" That prudence which should never leave the frontiersman, suggested that he ought to descend the tree, and seek some other place of hiding. Footprints in the Forest Twelve or thirteen years ago I crossed the Sierra Nevada mountains as a Government surveyor under a famous frontiersman and civil engineer—Colonel Lander. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Hurrying forward from the railway, the little party had been joined by two young frontiersmen eager to obtain employment with the scouts of Stanley's column. Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Nevertheless, the old frontiersman shifted his position so that his gun lay ready to his hand. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters The frontiersmen were slinging down their axes and swinging their guns across their shoulders. The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras The Sauk halted a few minutes until he could reload his gun, for, like all frontiersmen, he appreciated the need of having a loaded weapon always at command. Footprints in the Forest He was fond of good horses, boasted of his skill as a hunter, and possessed all the requisites of a successful frontiersman. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier He was dressed for this expedition in the tough buckskin hunting suit which frontiersmen then wore. Heroes of the Middle West The French The terrible butcheries committed by the Indians so maddened the frontiersmen that they forgot their civilization and resorted to methods as inhuman as did the Indians. Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola The five, Boone, and many other of the best frontiersmen had already sought the shelter of stones or little hillocks, and were firing at every head that appeared above the edge of the gullies. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand Among them were the "minute men" of Culpeper, a famous band of frontiersmen, wearing green hunting-shirts and carrying knives and tomahawks. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality He had built a small steamboat with the proceeds of his gun, and we all held him in high respect as a fine type of frontiersman. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier Moreover, it is language that was characteristic of the early settlers in the region where the frontiersman lived, and hence is of some historical interest to us. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide To fall upon the defenseless cabin of some sleeping frontiersman and murder him and his family was in their eyes a feat to boast of. Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola Fortunate, again fortunate, and thrice fortunate were the frontiersmen who were veterans, also! The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand They found a refuge at last among the bold frontiersmen of the Watauga in Tennessee, many of whom were the Regulators of North Carolina, the refugees from Governor Tryon's tyranny. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Jackson seemed to rise from the rough frontiersman to the guardian of the nation when he gave the word, "The Federal Union—it must be preserved!" The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement The expedition promised him a chance to push farther into that wild western country, if nothing else, and so he joined Braddock's small army with about a hundred other North Carolina frontiersmen. Historic Boyhoods The frontiersmen were in no humor to sit still and wait for the Indians to scalp them at their plows or burn them in their beds. Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola The veteran frontiersmen knew the valor of their enemy, and his wonderful skill as a forest fighter. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand Too many cabins on the border had been burned and their inmates mercilessly slain for a frontiersman to see an Indian without a burning inclination to kill him. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality In short, the story of that early day shows our first frontiersman no novice in crime. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado The English regulars, the frontiersmen, and the baggage train were caught in the deep ravine of Turtle Creek, a few miles away from Pittsburg, and suddenly set upon by ambushed Indians commanded by French officers. Historic Boyhoods Baker was a typical frontiersman—brave, obstinate, independent, and fearless—who might have stepped out of Leather Stocking, and he had a kind, sweet wife. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson They used the long running walk of the frontiersman and their toughened muscles seemed never to tire. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand His large, round glasses gave him a studious look that to a frontiersman was ominous. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Theirs was a great school for frontiersmen, and its graduates gave full account of themselves wherever they went. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Mightypage 25 woods, broken only here and there by tiny clearings, stretched around the little settlement; Indians and frontiersmen, hunters, traders, trappers—all these were a part of the boy's daily life. American Men of Mind And while this family quarrel was at its height, the Indian scalping raids grew in frequency and violence; and the memory of the Pontiac War was still fresh in the minds of the frontiersmen. Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada Henry told what they had seen and heard and the great frontiersman agreed with them that the attack was at hand. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand He was a Southerner by birth, but a frontiersman by upbringing, and all the formative influences of his youth were of the West. A History of the United States By this time frontiersmen were well armed with repeating weapons, which now used fixed ammunition. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado He wore the usual red shirt and blue scarf of the frontiersman, and he was mounted on a splendid bay horse, that was less like a prairie mustang than a well-trained cavalry charger. Kiddie the Scout The frontiersmen rallied about him; and with a body of 970 crack riflemen he crossed the Ohio and advanced on the town of Old Chillicothe. Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada At break of day he was up and away, and until afternoon he sped toward the south in the long running walk which frontiersmen and Indians could maintain for hours with ease. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand It is impossible for an admirer of Jackson to deny that his attitude in such a matter was too much that of a frontiersman. A History of the United States His influence among the frontiersmen was unbounded; his word was law. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Because," pursued Kiddie, "if it was robbery, an experienced frontiersman like Nick Undrell wouldn't calculate on finding much boodle on a Pony Express rider. Kiddie the Scout "He is only a tame duck who with sheepish timidity attempts to controvert the determination of a body of frontiersmen from their purpose by firing at them with a water squirt." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 Throughout its whole course the frontiersmen stood close together and keen eyes and trained ears noted everything that passed in the forest. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand Because he was a frontiersman he tended to be at once democratic in temper and despotic in action. A History of the United States For a number of years Tenison had run his place in Sleepy Cat undisturbed by the swiftly changing fortunes of frontiersmen and railroad men. Laramie Holds the Range But the sharp-eyed frontiersmen quickly detected them, and none got through. Kiddie the Scout Almost every tribe has its own way of constructing its lodges, encamping, making fires, its own style of dress, by some of which peculiarities the experienced frontiersman can generally distinguish them. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions They were back on the camp and among the frontiersmen, in less than a minute. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand Once more alien national interests lie threatening at our borders, but we no longer appeal to the Monroe Doctrine and send our armies of frontiersmen to settle our concerns off-hand. The Frontier in American History I could not help think what a blessing it was that we had picked up at Los Angeles this competent frontiersman whose strong, brown hands could make or dress a wound with equal skill. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure |
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