frontiersman's

Updated: May 25, 2025

It is customary in new countries for the first comers to help themselves freely to the trees on government land, for logs with which to construct their cabins, and to rive into shingles and saw into boards; and many a sinewy oak had fallen before the frontiersman's axe in the woods near the Joneses, leaving the brawny limbs upon the ground.

C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson - The Cabin on the Prairie