Many political commentators seem to have seized on the idea that Sarah Palin is a "frontierswoman," an old-time pioneer rather than a standard political type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Rosner: Palin the Frontierswoman?] Reference

"frontierswoman" aspect of Palin's profile, and astutely took apart the reasons why that can-do, gun-toting Annie Oakley image so quickly and firmly grabbed hold of GOP convention delegates and the press.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference

"Probably, though I can't picture you as a frontierswoman.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Did You Say Twins]

Her transformation into a frontierswoman is just what the doctor ordered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions Of A Cinema Junkie: Glorious Self-Indulgence And The Return Of Grandeur] Reference

In deeming Sarah Palin a frontierswoman, commentators have managed to get it backwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Rosner: Palin the Frontierswoman?] Reference

But given Palin's provenance, perhaps the commentators have in mind a cold-weather version of the frontierswoman?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Rosner: Palin the Frontierswoman?] Reference

Isabel Gunn was surely a frontierswoman if ever there was one, but she achieved this status only by posing as a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Rosner: Palin the Frontierswoman?] Reference

The whole media fracas caused by Palin's image as a rough-and-tumble moose-hunting frontierswoman was largely fabricated, an acquaintance told Gross.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah Palin's Two Faces, Iron Fist And Growing Secrecy: Vanity Fair] Reference

And by the way, Annie Oakley (1860-1926), who like Sarah Palin was a great shot, wasn't actually a frontierswoman - she just played one on the stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Rosner: Palin the Frontierswoman?] Reference

Palin's 10 years as city councilwoman and then mayor of Wasilla bolstered her reputation as a gutsy frontierswoman willing to fight the old boys 'network.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Many Alaskans, Wasilla] Reference

In his analysis of Palin, Alexander Cockburn picks up that theme, waxing even more poetic: He celebrates Palin as "the beautiful, intrepid frontierswoman, shoulder to shoulder with her man.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Rosner: Palin the Frontierswoman?] Reference

In their dreamy vision, this Alaskan frontierswoman is (for J.R. Dunn in the American Thinker), "stalwart, stoic, tough, capable, but at the same time remaining feminine, deferring to the man.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Rosner: Palin the Frontierswoman?] Reference

In the Pennsylvania Colony, frontierswoman and poet Susanna Wright became a prothonotary – the principal court clerk – of the colony, enhancing her stature as a legal counselor to her mostly illiterate neighbors, for whom she prepared wills, deeds, indentures, and other contracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

When, more than three centuries later, terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center, Faludi contends that the captivity narrative re-emerged as the organizing principle for our national identity, re-configured to star a heroic cowboy rescuing a weak frontierswoman from a "dark-skinned, non-Christian combatant.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Myths and Men] Reference

But elements of the frontierswoman are apparent as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

She now rapidly was becoming a good frontierswoman and thoughtful of her locomotive power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Covered Wagon] Reference

In some ways she is a 19th Century frontierswoman, and I mean that in the best way possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

This whole election completely messes with my scholarly identity as the frontierswoman maverick.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

Actor Katie Guentzel gave wistful life to the fearless, 19th-century frontierswoman of the title.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

Like all populists, she's great on the stump, with her particular mix of Alaska frontierswoman and Valley-Girl-with-tanning-bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Like all populists, she's great on the stump, with her particular mix of Alaska frontierswoman and Valley-Girl-with - tanning-bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloomberg] Reference

Stanley calls Palin's performance "a 90-minute sprint to reclaim her identity as a feisty, folksy frontierswoman ready to storm Washington.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CJR] Reference

Since she stepped down as Alaska governor in July 2009, Mrs Palin has straddled the worlds of entertainment and politics with her folksy, frontierswoman persona.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Walk down the grassy, sunlit paths and experience the same sights, sounds and scents as the pioneers - the same that one famous frontierswoman knew in the 19th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [JSOnline.com] Reference

The good looks of a former beauty queen combined with the ruggedness of a frontierswoman sparked for Palin a kind of mania not generated by the typical candidate for vice president.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Respini is not afraid to mix things up, juxtaposing Ansel Adams and Stephen Shore, David Hockney and Dorothea Lange, and Cindy Sherman's pigtailed latter-day frontierswoman with the cast of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

In Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's satirical and pioneering Washington novel, "The Gilded Age," published in 1873, the beautiful frontierswoman Laura Hawkins accepts an invitation from Senator Dilworthy to visit the nation's capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

Her hands, vibrating over her work with little hovering movements like birds about to light, now and then flashing out a needle which she stabbed into her coiffure, were large-boned and dexterous, the strong, unresting hands of the frontierswoman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emigrant Trail] Reference

And from the fact that the party's dogged allegiance to up-by-your-bootstraps individualism - an individualism exemplified by Palin, the frontierswoman who somehow has managed to "balance" five children and her political career with no need for support - is leading to a culture-wide crack-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unknown Candidate] Reference

And from the fact that the party's dogged allegiance to up-by-your-bootstraps individualism -- an individualism exemplified by Palin, the frontierswoman who somehow has managed to "balance" five children and her political career with no need for support -- is leading to a culture-wide crack-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Sarah Palin is part of a frontier myth that goes back to the earliest years of the Republic: the beautiful, intrepid frontierswoman, shoulder to shoulder with her man, firing at the redskins circling the wagon and dispatching the roaring grizzly with a steady aim as it towers over her infant's cradle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

200,000 acres to the state; his two grandsons, each with an opposing view on the proper disposition of the family heritage; and, most memorably, Claire Hammond, a Connecticut girl who took to the terrain and transformed herself into a true frontierswoman after marrying into the clan.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]