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frontiersman † frontierman Hist. 
n. a person who lives on the frontier, especially one who is knowledgeable in its ways.
See also: frontier (def. 2)
- 1882 If this boundary manipulator, claim-staker, smudge verifyer, sproutee, frontiersman thirteen years out has by the success of his artifices deluded himself to the zenith of consequentiality, he must not count on a quiet walk in over my shanty.
- 1960 In 1862, Richard Willoughby, an experienced frontierman, found the Lowhee, which he named after a secret society formed by the miners in 1858 at Yale.
- 1963 In the words of the frontiersman, the half-breed was "the meanest creature that walks."
- 1882 If this boundary manipulator, claim-staker, smudge verifyer, sproutee, frontiersman thirteen years out has by the success of his artifices deluded himself to the zenith of consequentiality, he must not count on a quiet walk in over my shanty.