A newcomer in the West is sometimes called a tenderfoot.
1861. A tenderfooted loyalty will not do for times like these.—San Francisco Pacific, n.d.
1890. See OUNCER.
1890. I would be too smart to run another ranche in this country. I would unload it on some tender-foot.… All that I have been buying was stuff fit only to sell to tenderfeet, who wanted it only to sell to other tenderfeet.—Van Dyke, ‘Millionaires of a Day,’ pp. 19, 199.
1902. In the early days when the people of the frontier called me an “enthusiastic tenderfoot” whose eyes had not yet been opened to the fact that there were no good Indians save dead Indians.—Bishop Whipple, ‘Lights and Shadows,’ p. 142.
