plainsmen
Open country settlers
Plainsmen is the plural of plainsman—a person who lives on or is familiar with open, flat grassland terrain, especially the Great Plains of North America.
The term evokes frontier life and suggests practical knowledge of the land: The plainsmen knew how to read the weather and track game across miles of prairie.
First to explore territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- westwardToward the sunset
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
trappers · scouts · cowboys · saddlebags · horseback · lasso · frontier · territory
Movement to new territory
- herdersLivestock guardians and guides
- pastoralismMobile livestock husbandry
- tribesAncestral social groups
- wanderersThose who drift aimlessly
steppe · horsemen · Comanches · Sioux · Lakota · Cheyenne · Mongols · Cossacks
pioneers
First to explore territory
- settlersThose who establish homes
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- westwardToward the sunset
prairie · trappers · scouts · cowboys · saddlebags · horseback · lasso · frontier · territory · expansion
migration
Movement to new territory
- herdersLivestock guardians and guides
- pastoralismMobile livestock husbandry
- tribesAncestral social groups
wanderers · steppe · horsemen · Comanches · Sioux · Lakota · Cheyenne · Mongols · Cossacks · Kazakhs
dwellers
Those who occupy space
countrymen · villagers · denizens · occupants · grasslands · flatlands · savanna · pampas · veld · llanos
farming
Cultivating land for food
- ranchingOperating a livestock farm
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- cultivationFostering growth through care
harvest · livestock · grazing · cattle · crops · irrigation · fencing · windmill · barnyard · threshing
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- Wild West ShowsBuffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull, rough riders, sharpshooters
- pastoral lifeshepherds, shepherding, herders, herding, herdsmen
- horse nomadsMongols, Huns, Scythians, Magyars, horse archers
plainsmenmountaineers
High-altitude peak scalers
highlanders · mountain men · mountain dwellers · seafarers · islanders
plainsmencity dwellers
People living in metropolises
urbanites · townspeople · metropolitans · townsfolk · city slickers