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Mountain man   /mˈaʊntən mæn/   Listen
Mountain man

noun
1.
A man who lives on the frontier.  Synonyms: backwoodsman, frontiersman.





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"Mountain man" Quotes from Famous Books



... many were anxious to get the opinion of Capt. Hunt on the feasibility of the new route for he was a mountain man and could probably give us some good advice. He finally consented to talk of it, and said he really knew no more then the others about this particular route, but he very much doubted if a white man ever went over ...
— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly
... abandoned, and on duty that night with the cattle guard—a herdsman and not a leader of men now. He himself was moody enough when he tied his cape behind his saddle and rode his black horse out into the shadows. He had no knowledge of the fact that the old mountain man, Jackson, wrapped in his blanket, that night instituted a solitary ...
— The Covered Wagon • Emerson Hough


Words linked to "Mountain man" :   Christopher Carson, Daniel Boone, frontiersman, David Crockett, Boone, Crockett, Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, pioneer, Carson


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