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plainsman Hist. 
n. a man who lived on or was familiar with the prairies in early times.
- 1801 (1920) Jas. Ruchan began yesterday to make plainsmen's coat for Ind. . . .
- 1887 I have heard plainsmen, who were all their lives on the plain, say that it is impossible to have a cross between the buffalo and domesticated cattle.
- 1939 After a careful examination of the two, I confess that my faith in the average plainsmen's tradition?whether red or white?is very weak.
- 1963 He would use this skilled plainsman against the American traders who were making incursions on Hudson's Bay Company territory.
- 1801 (1920) Jas. Ruchan began yesterday to make plainsmen's coat for Ind. . . .