Word: frontiersman
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...American Frontiersman had a faculty which amounted to a genius for manufacturing sobriquets which not only stuck, but fitted. When, therefore, an obscure Tennessee General defied the Secretary of War, when he secured twenty days' rations for his 2070 men from an unfriendly colleague, when he dug a thousand dollars out of his own pocket to care for the sick, and when, turning over his own horses to the medical department, he herded his disheartened regiment all the way from Natchez to Nashville,--it was certainly time for a new nickname. He's "tough," exclaimed an admiring voice from...
...American Frontiersman had a faculty which amounts to genius for manufacturing sobriquets which not only stuck but fitted. When, therefore, an obscure Tennessee General defied the Secretary of War, when he wangled twenty days' rations for his 2070 men from an unfriendly colleague, when he dug a thousand dollars out of his own pocket to care for the sick, and when, turning over his own horses to the medical department, he herded his disheartened regiment all the way from Natchez to Nashville--it was certainly time for a new nickname. "He's tough," exclaimed an admiring voice from the ranks...
...foundations of which were uncovered in building the Harvard Square subway terminal. But Eaton's school was a miserable affair, a boarding-school of Oliver Twist pupils and Fagan-like masters, and Eaton himself was removed in two years for assaulting a "Young gentleman" with a club. This rough frontiersman-teacher kept a diary, in which he related how he set out 30 apple trees "in the Yard," literally the backyard of his house. This original Yard extended across the site of Wadsworth House (the yellow wooden building at the corner of the Yard next to Lehman Hall) to about...
Died. Sarah Jane Garner, 81, mother of John Nance Garner; of general toxic poisoning: at Detroit, Tex. Daughter of a frontiersman, born on the banks of Texas' Red River, she bore Son John Nance and six other children in a mud-chinked log cabin. She also raised five orphans of her kinfolk. Nominee Garner turned away from the deathbed before his mother died, saying he preferred to remember her as he had known...
Daniel Boone Jr., Kansas City insurance executive, great-great-grandson of the heroic frontiersman, was held up and robbed by a gunman whom he described as "very hard and very drunk...