History Main / ThePioneer

May be part of SettlingTheFrontier, and may be remembered as OurFounder. If the military moves into the area, he may find employment as an ArmyScout or a {{Ranger}}.

May be part of SettlingTheFrontier. If the military moves into the area, he may find employment as an ArmyScout or a {{Ranger}}.

* Verses of the [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica South African]] national anthem, which have been dropped from the current iteration, celebrate the long trek of [[AmoralAfrikaner the first Boers]] into the hinterland of a new continent, and honour the pioneers who opened up Africa for colonisation by the Dutch. The possibility of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIiQSpiOHQM&t=54s the second, third and fourth verses]] of ''Die Stem'' becoming official again in the new South Africa are considered to be rather low.

{{AC: Music]]

* Daniel Boone
* Simon Kenton
* Davy Crockett
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition The Lewis and Clark Expedition]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Carson Kit Carson]]
* ''VideoGame/MeriwetherAnAmericanEpic'': A FirstPerson SurvivalSandbox [=RPG=] about the above-mentioned Lewis and Clark Expedition.
* ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'' lets you play a pioneer on the dangerous journey west.
* ''Theatre/TheTrailToOregon'' is a satirical take on the above, with AudienceParticipation galore. Expect lots of dysentery.

A person who is among the first to explore and settle a new territory. Almost a [[WesternCharacters proto-Western character type]] since it started when "the West" was "out of sight of the Atlantic Ocean." The Pioneer is unsatisfied with his or her life in a settled land, and sets out to find out what lies over the river, or the mountain, or the prairie. Maybe they'll find the Northwest Passage, or that place with greener grass, or a land where a man has some elbow room--and maybe they won't. But they reckon it's worth the looking.

* ''Theater/TrailToOregon'' is a satirical take on the above, with AudienceParticipation galore. Expect lots of dysentery.

* ''Theater/TheTrailToOregon'' is a satirical take on the above, with AudienceParticipation galore. Expect lots of dysentery.

* ''VideoGame/MeriwetherAnAmericanEpic'': A FirstPerson SurvivalSandbox [=RPG=] about the above-mentioned Lewis and Clark Expedition]].

* ''VideoGame/MeriwetherAnAmericanEpic'': A FirstPerson SurvivalSandbox [=RPG=] about the above-mentioned Lewis and CLark Expidition]].

* The Lewis and Clark Expedition

* Barnabas Sackett, founder of the Sackett dynasty, starting in ''Sackett's Land'' by LouisLAmour.

-->How then am I so different from the first men through this way?\\

To find there but the road back home again.
--> ''Northwest Passage'', Music/StanRogers

--> ''Northwest Passage'', Creator/StanRogers

--> ''Northwest Passage'', Stan Rogers

May be part of SettlingTheFrontier.

* The classic VideoGame ''OregonTrail'' lets you play a pioneer on the dangerous journey west.

Examples:

----
<<|WesternCharacters|>>

In stories where pioneers are the main or sympathetic characters, the previous inhabitants of the territory will generally be depicted as either scarce and dying out, or so uncivilized that they don't count. The pioneer generally has to fight not just hostile natives, but also dangerous wildlife, extreme weather and a certain amount of loneliness.