trail blazers
Wilderness route makers
Trail blazers are people who forge new paths—originally those who marked trails through wilderness by cutting blazes into trees, now more often pioneers in any field.
Someone who introduces innovative methods or ideas blazes trails for others to follow: The early suffragettes were trail blazers for women's rights.
Also spelled as one word. (Capitalized Trail Blazers is the Portland NBA team.)
- Wild WestAmerica's lawless frontier era
- wild frontierUnsettled border region
- wagon trainPioneers' covered convoy
- chuckwagonMobile frontier cooking station
- dusty trailsDry, powdery pathways
Lewis and Clark · Clyde · frontier · uncharted territory · visionary · adventurer · explorer · scout · groundbreaker · first mover · cowpunchers · forerunner · pathfinder · pioneer · revolutionary · originator · inventor · architect
- frontier lifehomesteaders, farmer, homesteading, shepherd, pioneer women
- military scoutsscouts, ranger, vanguard, pathfinder, reconnaissance
- Pioneer Trailscovered wagons, wagon trains, pioneers, emigrants, wagon ruts
- WesternersArizonans, Californians, Coloradans, Nevadans, New Mexicans
trail blazersfollowers
People who support someone
imitators · copycats · conformists · sheep · hangers-on
trail blazerstraditionalists
Upholders of established customs
conservatives · conformists · stick-in-the-muds · old guard · reactionaries