mountain man

noun

: an American frontiersman (such as a trapper) at home in the wilderness

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Irion started thinking of the project as the soundtrack to an imaginary movie, inspired in part by 1972’s Jeremiah Johnson, which starred Robert Redford as a mountain man. Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024 The two old mountain men looked each other in the eye. Alex Traub, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024 Bull died in 2014 at 89. 11 of 16 Victor French as Isaiah Edwards Victor French portrayed Isaiah Edwards in Little House on the Prairie, a mountain man who later settled in Walnut Grove. Melissa Girimonte, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2024 There’s also the elaborate animal-catching ingenuity of a mountain man (Wes Tank) who inspires him. Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mountain man 

Word History

First Known Use

1839, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mountain man was in 1839

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“Mountain man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mountain%20man. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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