plainsman
Dweller on flatlands
A plainsman is a man who lives or works on the plains—the vast, flat grasslands of the American West.
The term evokes frontier life: cowboys, ranchers, hunters, and settlers who knew how to survive in open country.
Buffalo Bill was celebrated as a plainsman and scout.
One who settles wilderness land
- sodbusterSlang for farmer
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- colonistPerson inhabiting new territory
- frontiersmanSettler of wild borders
squatter · rancher · farmer · cattleman · landholder · dugout · sod house · nester
Open grassy flatland
- grasslandTreeless herb-covered ecosystem
- steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
- savannaTropical grassland, sparse trees
- pampasSouth American treeless plains
veldt · flatland · horizon · mesa · butte · open range · llano · tableland
Toward the sunset
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
wagon train · buffalo hunter · trapper · scout · pathfinder · guide · surveyor · prospector
homesteader
One who settles wilderness land
frontiersman · squatter · rancher · farmer · cattleman · landholder · dugout · sod house · nester · yeoman
prairie
Open grassy flatland
- grasslandTreeless herb-covered ecosystem
- steppeTreeless Eurasian grassland
- savannaTropical grassland, sparse trees
pampas · veldt · flatland · horizon · mesa · butte · open range · llano · tableland · badlands
westward
Toward the sunset
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
manifest destiny · wagon train · buffalo hunter · trapper · scout · pathfinder · guide · surveyor · prospector · prairie schooner
cattle drive
Moving herd to market
- ranchingOperating a livestock farm
- herdingManaging animal groups
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
roundup · cowboy · vaquero · gaucho · stockman · drover · wrangler · livestock · mustang · bronco
Native American
Original inhabitants of America
- tribeSocial group sharing ancestry
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
tradition · Lakota · Sioux · Comanche · Cheyenne · Pawnee · Apache · customs · ancestry · kinship
- residentsresident, residents, inhabitants, inhabitant, local
- Frontiersmenfrontiersman, backwoodsman, trapper, fur trapper, woodsman
- IndiansIndian, desi, Indian American, first generation, second generation
plainsmanmountaineer
Professional summit climber
mountain man · highlander · seaman · woodsman · mariner
plainsmancity dweller
Urban area inhabitant
urbanite · city slicker · metropolitan · suburbanite · townsman