Most of them were rough, stern frontiersmen from the Amoskeag Falls, skilled in Indian fighting.
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.
Meanwhile the frontiersmen had halted at the Cowpens.
Bold frontiersmen went into No Man's Land and staked out their claims.
His riflemen poured fire into Shelby's contingent, but meanwhile the frontiersmen on the other sides were creeping up, and presently a circle of fire burst upon the hill.
The frontiersmen had adapted the motto to fit their case, as they had also made their own the Indian tactics of ambuscade and surprise attacks at dawn.
The call to arms was heard up and down the valleys, and the frontiersmen poured into Watauga.
By the red man's fiat, then, human life might abide in Tennessee, though not in Kentucky, and it followed that in seasons of peace the frontiersmen might settle in Tennessee.
Some discord arose between Dunmore and Lewis's frontier forces because, since the Shawanoes had made peace, the Governor would not allow the frontiersmen to destroy the Shawano towns.
The frontiersmen used the same means to trick the Indian band into betraying the place of its ambuscade, or to lure the strays, unwitting, within reach of the knife.
The infuriated frontiersmen within the fort fell upon the hostages and slew them all--twenty-six chiefs--and the Indian war was on.
Early writers have usually represented the frontiersmen as saints in buckskin and the Indians as fiends without the shadow of a claim on either the land or humanity.
At Bickerstaff's Old Fields in Rutherford County the frontiersmen halted; and here they selected thirty of their prisoners to be hanged.
In haste he dispatched a dozen frontiersmen to cut the party off at Crab Orchard and take away the gun of every man who refused to turn back and do his bit for Kentucky.
The retreat was crowded with frontiersmen and traders, among whom he recognized many acquaintances.
It commences with the pioneers and hunters in the East, and continues on to the frontiersmen and soldiers in the West.
The Indians were outside, thefrontiersmen were inside, and no help near.
Despite the king's proclamation in 1763, frontiersmen soon crossed the mountains and settled in what is now Kentucky and Tennessee.
The hardy frontiersmen gave it no heed, and, passing over the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina, they hunted, trapped, and made settlements in the forbidden land.
The tiresome thumping on the hero theme present in many biographies of frontiersmen is entirely absent.
The pillow of the frontiersmen who slept with a six-shooter under it was a saddle, and hitched to the horn was the loose end of a stake rope.
Knowing well that the Indians would not allow this massacre to go unavenged the frontiersmen erected forts and blockhouses.
They are uncouth; they have no manners, but their hearts are honest and true, and that is of much greater importance in frontiersmenthan the little attentions and courtesies upon which women are apt to lay too much stress.
Where they are really numerous they are a menace and a nuisance to frontiersmen who need to traverse their haunts.
In those days the courage of the grizzly was at its highest peak; and it was then conceded by all frontiersmen that the grizzly was thoroughly courageous, and always ready to fight.
Western frontiersmen and others who live in the land of the pack rat relate stories innumerable of the absurd but industrious doings of these eccentric creatures.
Among the Indians and frontiersmen of the western United States and Canada, the sign language has reached what in all probability is its highest development, and its vocabulary is really wonderful.
All observers were struck by the intense fondness of the frontiersmen for the woods and for a restless, lonely life.
The perfection of fighting capacity to which he had brought his forces caused much talk among the frontiersmen themselves.
The British statesmen were engaged in gigantic schemes of warfare and diplomacy; and to them the Indians and the frontiersmen alike were pawns on a great chessboard, to be sacrificed whenever necessary.
The Indians asserted that they were friendly, and both the Federal Secretary of War and the Governor of Pennsylvania denounced the deed, and threatened the offenders; but the frontiersmen stood by them.
These facts must all be remembered if we wish to get an intelligent explanation of the utter failure of the frontiersmen when, in 1812, they were again pitted against the British and the forest tribes.
The rude militia officers began to lead their retaliatory parties into the Indian lands, and soon the innocent Indians suffered with the guilty, for the frontiersmen had no means of distinguishing between them.
The Georgia frontiersmen openly showed their sullen hatred of the United States authorities.
While in the actual presence of the Indians the stern necessities of border warfare forced the frontiersmen into a certain semblance of discipline.
Many old frontiersmen tell tales of the cougar's occasionally itself making the attack, and dogging to his death some unfortunate wayfarer.
Frontiersmen are not, as a rule, apt to be very superstitious.
Frontiersmen are often as original as their names; and the originality may take the form of wild savagery, of mere uncouthness, or of an odd combination of genuine humor with simple acceptance of facts as they are.
The exasperated frontiersmen were not in a mood to discriminate, and the innocent were destined to share the fate of the guilty.
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.
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.
There are many naturalists and frontiersmen who affirm from first-hand experience that the grizzly is not ferocious, and following are given a number of quotations from a few of these men.
During the first fifty years of the white man's contact with the grizzly, the bear frequently came close to a man or a camp for a better look; mostfrontiersmen thought this near approach was ferocity in the bear.
There were seventeen frontiersmen in the squad, all of them disappointed in being too late to help in defending Birkenshaw's ponies, but all of them eager to join in the pursuit of Broken Feather and his braves.
But the sharp-eyed frontiersmen quickly detected them, and none got through.
But most of all he simply studied, as his frontiersmen ancestors had done before him.
But our ownfrontiersmen were not men to stand any nonsense from wolves or cougars.
His ancestors, for literally generations, had been frontiersmenand outdoor naturalists who never wrote books.
It was part of his inheritance from his frontiersmen ancestors, and it freed his wings in the hills.
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.
He had imagination and insight and sympathy; but most of all he had a heritage of wood lore from his frontiersmen ancestors.
The tail lashed back and forth, and now it had begun to have a slight vertical motion that frontiersmen have learned to watch for.
They made a song to him, a strange, wild melody that even such frontiersmen as Dan and Lennox could not experience.
Clay threw his votes to Adams, who was elected, thereby arousing the wrath of Jackson and of the stalwart and irreconcilable frontiersmen who hailed him as their leader.
This new democracy flocked to its imperator; and Jackson entered his capital in triumph, followed by a motley crowd of frontiersmen in coonskin caps, farmers in butternut-dyed homespun, and hungry henchmen eager for the spoils.
The planters and frontiersmen sprang to arms and began to form a combination against these dangerous enemies.
The men who remained with Bacon were nearly all frontiersmen who had suffered more or less from the savages.
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.
In an incredibly short time these experienced frontiersmen had not only located the spot from which had been fired the shot that undoubtedly saved Miss Carter's life, but Douglass had as well found the discharged cartridge shell.
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.
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.
When the Indians, driven by hunger, killed any of their cattle or hogs, the frontiersmen "beat and abused them.
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.
The frontiersmen vowed that they would have a commission or they would march on Jamestown and "pull down the town.
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.
The frontiersmen were able to push back the Indians.
Why does he say that the first frontiersmenwere "timid"?
For long we lacked, it is true, that new breed of frontiersmen born in after years beyond the mountains.
Those firstfrontiersmen had still a touch of the timidity of the Old World in their blood: they lacked the frontier heart.
There it was that our Saxon frontiersmen first discovered the cattle industry.
But the frontiersmen were the true dreamers of the nation.
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.
Frontiersmen are quick to take lessons from the Indians, the most practical of transportation masters.
That was all; yet the experienced frontiersmen knew that eyes as keen as those of any wild animal of the jungle were watching murderously their slightest movement.
One and all these frontiersmenrecognized the inevitable--before dawn the end must come.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frontiersmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
