Frontiersman

Insbesondere im US-Amerikanischen bezeichnet frontiersman jemanden, der in der frontier lebt, also jenseits der sicheren Grenze, in neu und dünn besiedeltem Gebiet (Plainsman, Einwohner der plains), in der Wildnis, auch ein Hinterwäldler, Grenzgänger oder Waldläufer, aber kein man of the bush, sondern beispielsweise ein army surgeon, camp cook, cattleman, cowboy, mail coach driver, freighter, hunter, interpreter, pioneer, ranger, scapegoat, trail-driver, trapper, trader …

Literatur

Western frontiersmen series: Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, Calif., 1937- zuletzt in Kooperation mit University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

1 1937 Robert Beebe David
Finn [Fincelius G.] Burnett [1844–1933], Frontiersman. The life and adventures of an Indian fighter, mail coach driver, etc. [With a portrait.]
2 1940 J. V. Frederick
Ben Holladay [1819-1887], the stagecoach king; a chapter in the development of transcontinental transportation
3 1964 Zoe A. Tilghman
Marshal of the last frontier; life and services of William Matthew (Bill) Tilghman [1854-1924], for 50 years one of the greatest peace officers of the West
4 1953 Angie Debo
The cowman's Southwest : being the reminiscences of Oliver Nelson [1861–1957], freighter, camp cook, cowboy, frontiersman in Kansas, Indian Territory, Texas, and Oklahoma, 1878-1893. *
5 1955 Otis E. Young
The West of Philip St. George Cooke, 1809-1895
6 1987 Agnes Wright Spring
Pioneer years in the Black Hills. Richard B. Hughes [1856–1930]
7 1957 Raymond W. Thorp
Spirit Gun of the West. The story of Doc W.F. Carver [1840–1927], etc.
8 1961 Aurora Hunt
Kirby Benedict [1810-1874], frontier Federal judge; an account of legal and judicial development in the Southwest, 1853-1874, with special reference to the Indian, slavery, social and political affairs, journalism, and a chapter on circuit riding with Abraham Lincoln in Illinois
9 1961/1972 Juanita Brooks
John Doyle Lee [1812-1877] : zealot, pioneer, builder, scapegoat
10 1965 Allen A. Edwin
The Southwest of John H. Slaughter, 1841-1922 : pioneer, cattleman and trail-driver of Texas, the Pecos, and Arizona and sheriff of Tombstone
11 1964 M. O. Skarsten
George Drouillard, Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807–1810.
12 1965 Iris Wilson Engstrand
William Wolfskill, 1798-1866 : frontier trapper to California ranchero
13 1966 David Michael Goodman
A western panorama 1849-1875, the travels, writings and influence of J. Ross Browne [1821-1875] on the Pacific coast, and in Texas, Nevada, Arizona and Baja California, as the first mining Commissioner and as Minister to China
14 1970 Charles G. Clarke
The men of the Lewis and Clark expedition : a biography roster of the 51 members and comoposite diary of their acitivities from all known sources
15 1974 Stan Hoig
The western odyssey of John Simpson Smith[1810-1871] : frontiersman, trapper, trader, and interpreter. Inhalt
16 1975 Donald Chaput
Francois X. Aubry [1824-1854], Trader, Trailmaker and Voyageur in the Southwest, 1846-1854. Inhalt
17 1977 Sheldon G. Jackson
A British ranchero in old California : the life and times of Henry Dalton [1803-1884] and the Rancho Azusa
18 1977 George R. Brooks
The Southwest expedition of Jedediah S. Smith [1799–1831] : his personal account of the journey to California, 1826-1827
19 1979 Eldon G. Chuinard
Only one man died : the medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
20 1983 Carl Briggs, Clyde Francis Trudell
Quarterdeck & saddlehorn : the story of Edward F. Beale, 1822-1893
21 1988 Mark Joseph Stegmaier, David Humphreys Miller
James F. Milligan [1829-1899]: his journal of Fremont's [1813-1890] fifth expedition, 1853-1854, his adventurous life on land and sea
22 1990 David J. Weber
The Californios versus Jedediah Smith, 1826-1827 : a new cache of documents
23 1989 Ronnie C. Tyler
Wanderings in the Southwest in 1855. - J. D. B. Stillman [1819-1888]
24 1995 Charles B. Churchill
Adventurers and prophets : American autobiographers in Mexican California, 1828-1847
25 1995 Anna Jean Backus
Mountain Meadows witness : the life and times of Bishop Philip Klingensmith [1817– um 1903]. Includes reprint of The Mountain Meadows Massacre : a special report / by James Henry Carleton, 1859
26 1995 Patricia Roche Herring
General José Cosme Urrea : his life and times, 1797-1849
27 1999 Donald E. Rowland
John Rowland [1791-1873] and William Workman [1799-1876]: Southern California pioneers of 1841
28 2000 Lesley Wischmann
Frontier diplomats : the life and times of Alexander Culbertson [1809–1879] and Natoyist-Siksinaʼ [um 1825–1893, =Natawista Iksina, =Natawista Iksana, =Natúyi-tsíxina]
29 2001 L. Milton Woods
John Clay, Jr. [1851-1934]: commission man, banker, and rancher
30 2003 L. Milton Woods
Asa Shinn Mercer : western promoter and newspaperman, 1839-1917
30 (=31?) 2004 Michael J. Gillis, Michael F. Magliari
John Bidwell [1819-1900] and California : the life and writings of a pioneer, 1841-1900
32 2005 William B. Secrest
The man from the Rio Grande : a biography of Harry Love [1810-1868], leader of the California rangers who tracked down Joaquín Murrieta [1829–1853]
33 2005 Susan M. Colby
Sacagawea's child : the life and times of Jean-Baptiste (Pomp) Charbonneau [1805–1866]
34 2010 Lawrence M. Woods
Horace Plunkett [1854-1932] in America. An Irish Aristocrat on the Wyoming Range
35 2015 Candy Vyvey Moulton
Valentine T. McGillycuddy [1849–1939] : army surgeon, agent to the Sioux
36 2011 John Phillip Reid
Forging a fur empire : expeditions in the Snake River country, 1809-1824
37 2014 John Gary Maxwell
Robert Newton Baskin [1835-1918] and the Making of Modern Utah
38 2014 Lesley Wischmann
This Far-Off Wild Land : the Upper Missouri Letters of Andrew Dawson [1817-1871]