Frontiersman

Origin

From frontier + man.

Full definition of frontiersman

Noun

1. A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a wild and undeveloped area on the fringes of civilization.
• 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 136-7:The inhabitant's of England's North American colonies outnumbered French Canadians some ten to one, but the French were tough, fur-trapping frontiersmen who posed a considerable military threat.