What is Frontiersman?
[[File:George Caleb Bingham - Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|{{center|Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap, by [[George Caleb Bingham]]}}]] '''Frontiersmen and frontierswomen''' are people living on the [[wikt:frontier|frontier]] between [[human settlement|settled]] and unsettled lands. The frontier was a place between [[civilization]] and the unknown [[wilderness]].<ref>Tim McNeese, ''American Frontier'' (St. Louis, Mo.: Milliken Publishing Co., 2002), p. 2</ref> Frontiersmen often cleared the land, built shelters, raised children, and grew crops.<ref>Tim McNeese, ''American Frontier'' (St. Louis, Mo.: Milliken Publishing Co., 2002), p. 20</ref> Hunting and [[animal trapping]] were prime sources of meat.<ref>John C. Weaver, ''Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900'' (Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003), p. 106</ref> Animal furs and skins were made into clothing. Famous [[Americans|American]] frontiersmen include [[Davy Crockett]], [[Daniel Boone]], and [[Kit Carson]].<ref>''Objects of Special Devotion: Fetishism in Popular Culture'', ed. Ray Broadus Browne (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1982), p. 155</ref> The [[United States]], [[Canada]], and [[Australia]] are countries In which frontiersmen and women have been found in large numbers. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:American frontiersmen and women]] {{history-stub}}