frontierswoman
- n a woman who lives on the frontier
- It is not therefore odd that his depiction of the frontierswoman should resemble a Byzantine cowgirl, shotgun in hand, fearlessly facing whatever the gods may send.
- The heroine is a reluctant frontierswoman of the 1880s named Catherine Crocker.
- John Ford made her a stalwart frontierswoman in Drums Along the Mohawk.