frontiersman
backwoodsman
mountain man

Like all mountain men, he wanted to be out in the open.

He'd just had his first talk with a mountain man, and learned a number of things he could use.

But by late March, they had not seen the mountain man.

At first she had seen only that he was a mountain man.

It's probably just as well that I never became a mountain man.

"Are you one of the early mountain men to come to this region?"

Most mountain men had started to work under contract to the big companies.

He was a mountain man, after all, and far more experienced in taking care of himself than she would ever be.

Some of the mountain men had survived the same treatment.

"What does one more or less of those dirty mountain men matter to you?"