Pioneer commonly refers to a

settler A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area. A settler who migrates to an area previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited may be described as a pioneer. Settle ...

who migrates to previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited land. In the United States pioneer commonly refers to an

American pioneer American pioneers were European American and African American settlers who migrated westward from the Thirteen Colonies and later United States to settle in and develop areas of North America that had previously been inhabited or used by Nati ...

, a person in American history who migrated west to join in settling and developing new areas. Pioneer, The Pioneer, or pioneering may also refer to:

Companies and organizations

* Pioneer Aerospace Corporation *

Pioneer Chicken Pioneer Chicken (or Pioneer Take Out, as it is officially named) is an American fried chicken restaurant chain which was founded in Echo Park, Los Angeles in 1961 by H. R. Kaufman. When Kaufman sold the chain in 1987, there were 270 restaurants op ...

, an American fast-food restaurant chain *

Pioneer Club Las Vegas Pioneer Club Las Vegas was a casino that opened in 1942 and was located in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, at 25 East Fremont Street. It ceased operating as a casino in 1995, the same year the Fremont Street Experience was completed. History The Pi ...

, a casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. *

Pioneer Corporation commonly referred to as Pioneer, is a Japanese multinational corporation based in Tokyo, that specializes in digital entertainment products. The company was founded by Nozomu Matsumoto in January 1, 1938 in Tokyo as a radio and speaker repair ...

, a Japanese electronics manufacturer *

Pioneer Energy Pioneer Energy LP (formerly Pioneer Petroleums), commonly referred to as Pioneer, is a gas retailer and convenience store operator, with locations in Ontario, Canada. Founded by Murray Hogarth in 1956, it is headquartered in Burlington, Ontario. ...

, a Canadian gas station chain *

Pioneer Entertainment (abbreviated as NBCUEJ) is a Japanese music, anime, and home entertainment production and distribution enterprise headquartered in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo. It is primarily involved in the production and distribution of anime within Japan. The ...

, a Japanese anime company *

Pioneer Hi-Bred Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. is a U.S.-based producer of seeds for agriculture. They are a major producer of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including genetically modified crops with insect and herbicide resistance. As of 2019, Pi ...

, a U.S.-based agriculture company *

Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall (formerly Colorado Club) is a hotel and casino located on the banks of the Colorado River in Laughlin, Nevada. It is known for its neon cigarette-puffing "River Rick" marque. It was a sister property of the Pioneer ...

, Laughlin, Nevada, U.S. *

Pioneer Instrument Company The Pioneer Instrument Company was an American aircraft component manufacturer. History The Pioneer Instrument Company was started by Morris Maxey Titterington and Brice Herbert Goldsborough in Brooklyn, New York in 1919 using patents from the L ...

, an American aeronautical instrument manufacturer *

Pioneer movement A pioneer movement is an organization for children operated by a communist party. Typically children enter into the organization in elementary school and continue until adolescence. The adolescents then typically join the Young Communist League ...

, a communist youth organization * Pioneer Natural Resources, an energy company in Texas, U.S. *

Pioneer Pictures Pioneer Pictures, Inc. was a Hollywood motion picture company, most noted for its early commitment to making color films. Pioneer was initially affiliated with RKO Pictures, whose production facilities in Culver City, California were used by Pio ...

, a former American film studio * Pioneer Surgical Technology, a medical technology company in Michigan, U.S. *

Pioneer Total Abstinence Association The Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart (PTAA) is an international organisation for Roman Catholic teetotalers that is based in Ireland. Its members are commonly called Pioneers. While the PTAA does not advocate prohibition, ...

, Irish Catholics who avoid alcohol *

Pioneers (missions agency) Pioneers is a Christian missions organization focused on church planting among unreached people groups. It was founded by former Wall Street Journal National Sales Manager Ted Fletcher in 1979 and has offices in Orlando, Florida, Australia, G ...

, a Christian missions organization

Entertainment

Art

* ''The Pioneer'' (Eugene, Oregon), a 1919 sculpture by Alexander Phimister Proctor * ''The Pioneer'' (painting), a 1904 painting by Frederick McCubbin *

The Pioneer (Visalia, California) :''This is about the sculpture in Visalia, California. For the same-named sculptures elsewhere, see Pioneer (disambiguation).'' ''The Pioneer'' in Visalia, California was a sculpture by Solon H. Borglum that was first displayed at the Panama� ...

, a sculpture in California by Solon H. Borglum * ''The Pioneers'' (sculpture), a 1928 sculpture in Illinois by Lorado Taft *

Pioneer Monument (disambiguation) Pioneer Monument or Pioneer Memorial may refer to: ;in Canada * Pioneer Monument Obelisk (Montreal), Quebec ;in the United States * Pioneer Monument (San Francisco), California * Pioneer Memorial (Denver, Colorado) or Pioneer Monument (Denver, ...

for others named "Pioneer Monument" or "Pioneer Memorial"

Film

* ''Pioneer'' (film), a 2013 Norwegian film, directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg * ''The Pioneers'' (1903 film) * ''The Pioneers'' (1916 film), directed by Franklyn Barrett * ''The Pioneers'' (1926 film), directed by Raymond Longford * ''The Pioneers'' (1941 film), directed by Albert Herman * ''The Pioneers'' (2021 film), 2021 Chinese film

Games

Pioneer (pinball) ''Spirit of 76'' is a pinball game designed by Ed Krynski and Wayne Neyens and released in 1975 by Gottlieb. The pinball machine should not be confused with the pinball machine '' The Spirit of '76'' by Mirco Games, Inc.http://www.ipdb.org/mac ...

, a 1976 pinball machine produced by Gottlieb * ''Pioneer'' (video game), 2006 space trading and combat simulator

Music

Albums

* ''Pioneer'' (The Band Perry album), 2013 * ''Pioneer'' (The Maine album), 2011 * ''Pioneer'' (Pioneer album), 2012 * ''The Pioneers'' (album), by MC Eiht and Spice 1, 2004

Bands

Pioneer (band) Pioneer, formerly News from Verona, is an American Christian music band. They come from Indianapolis, Indiana. The band started making music in 2008. Their membership is Chad Shirrell, Dalton Meyers, Dan Voris, and Dustin Jones, with former memb ...

, an American Christian music band *

The Pioneers (band) The Pioneers are a Jamaican reggae vocal trio, whose main period of success was in the 1960s. The trio has had different line-ups, and still occasionally performs. Career Founding and early years: 1962-67 The Pioneers were formed in 1962 by ...

, a Jamaican reggae vocal trio

Songs

* "Pioneer" (song), by Freddie, 2015 *"Pioneer", by The Band Perry, 2013, from '' Pioneer''

Literature

* ''Pioneer'' (magazine), a Soviet/Russian monthly magazine * ''Pioneer'' (newspaper), various English-language newspapers ** ''The Pioneer'' (South Australia), a newspaper ** ''The Pioneer'' (India), an English-language newspaper published in India * ''The Pioneers'' (novel), by James Fenimore Cooper *''The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West'', a 2019 book by

David McCullough David Gaub McCullough (; July 7, 1933 – August 7, 2022) was an American popular historian. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States ...

Military

Pioneer (military) A pioneer () is a soldier employed to perform engineering and construction tasks. The term is in principle similar to sapper or combat engineer. Pioneers were originally part of the artillery branch of European armies. Subsequently, they formed ...

, a soldier employed for engineering and construction tasks *

Pioneer Column The Pioneer Column was a force raised by Cecil Rhodes and his British South Africa Company in 1890 and used in his efforts to annex the territory of Mashonaland, later part of Zimbabwe (once Southern Rhodesia). Background Rhodes was anxio ...

, an 1890 force of the British South Africa Company *

AAI RQ-2 Pioneer The AAI RQ-2 Pioneer is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that had been used by the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Army, and deployed at sea and on land from 1986 until 2007. Initially tested aboard USS ''Iowa'', the RQ-2 Pioneer was place ...

, a U.S. military unmanned aerial vehicle *

RSD-10 Pioneer The RSD-10 ''Pioneer'' (russian: ракета средней дальности (РСД) «Пионер» tr.: ''raketa sredney dalnosti (RSD) "Pioner"''; en, Medium-Range Missile "Pioneer") was an intermediate-range ballistic missile with a ...

, a Soviet missile *

Scammell Pioneer Semi-trailer The Scammell Pioneer was a British 6×4 tractor unit used in World War II as an artillery tractor, recovery vehicle and tank transporter. Development Designed as a 6×4 off-road vehicle for use in Britain's colonies where sealed roads were sca ...

, a British tank recovery and transport vehicle *

Scottish Aviation Pioneer The Scottish Aviation Pioneer was an STOL aircraft manufactured by Scottish Aviation in Scotland. It was used for casualty evacuation and communications and could accommodate a pilot and up to four passengers. Design and development The Pion ...

, a British military aircraft

Places

Australia

Pioneer, Queensland Pioneer is a suburb of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Pioneer had a population of 2,176 people. Geography The Leichhardt River flows north-south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the ...

Pioneer, Tasmania Pioneer is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Dorset in the North-east LGA region of Tasmania ) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption ...

Pioneer River The Pioneer River is a river located in North Queensland, Australia. The long river flows through the city of . History Captain John Mackay and his party were the first Europeans to discover the river in 1860. Mackay named it Mackay River af ...

, in Queensland *

Shire of Pioneer The Shire of Pioneer was a local government area surrounding the city of Mackay and including all but its innermost suburbs. The shire, administered from Mackay itself, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1879 un ...

, a former local government area

United States

* Pioneer, Arizona *

Pioneer, California Pioneer is a census-designated place in Amador County, California. It is located east-northeast of Pine Grove, at an elevation of 2986 feet (910 m), along State Route 88. The community is in ZIP code 95666 and area code 209. The population ...

* Pioneer, Florida *

Pioneer, Indiana Pioneer is an unincorporated community in Noble Township, Wabash County, in the U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds gov ...

Pioneer, Iowa Pioneer is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, Iowa, United States. The population was 4 at the time of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, and elected to unincorporate as a municipality in 2020. Geography Pioneer is located at ...

Pioneer, Kansas Pioneer is a ghost town in Rush County, Kansas Rush County (standard abbreviation: RH) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 2,956. The largest city and county seat is La Crosse. ...

* Pioneer, Louisiana * Pioneer, Michigan *

Pioneer, Missouri Pioneer is an unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri, United States. History A post office called Pioneer was established in 1883, and remained in operation until 1934. The community was named for the local pioneer settlers. Refer ...

* Pioneer, Nevada * Pioneer, Ohio * Pioneer, Tennessee

Other places

Pioneer, Alberta Yellowhead County is a municipal district in west central Alberta, Canada. It is the only municipal district within Alberta census division No. 14. History *1994: Established as a ''Municipal District of Yellowhead No. 94'' on January 1. ...

Pioneer, Singapore Pioneer is a planning area located in the West Region of Singapore, named after Pioneer Road, formerly ''Jalan Besi'.'' The area is bounded by Jurong West to the north, Boon Lay to the east, Tuas to the west, the Western Water Catchment to the ...

Rail transport

* ''Pioneer'' (locomotive), built in 1837 * ''Pioneer'' (train), an Amtrak passenger train *

Pioneer MRT station Pioneer MRT station is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East West line in Jurong West, Singapore. Despite its name, Pioneer station is not physically located within the Pioneer planning area. Rather, its name was derived ...

, a transit station in Singapore

Schools

Pioneer High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Pioneer High School is a public school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1856, the school was previously called the Union School and Ann Arbor High School. In 2010, Pioneer was listed as a "Silver Medal School" by the '' U.S. News & World Re ...

, U.S. *

Pioneer High School (San Jose, California) Pioneer High School is a highly rated public high school located in the Almaden Valley neighborhood of San Jose, California. It is one of six high schools in the San Jose Unified School District, and is a science magnet school with an interdisci ...

, U.S. *

Pioneer High School (Whittier, California) Pioneer High School is a public school in West Whittier-Los Nietos, a census-designated place in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California. Academics Pioneer High School encourages the taking of AP courses in order to challenge and prepare f ...

, U.S. *

Pioneer Junior College Jurong Pioneer Junior College (JPJC) is a junior college in Singapore offering a two-year pre-university course leading up to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level examination. The college was formed from the merger of Jurong Junior College ...

, Singapore * Pioneer-Pleasant Vale Schools, (Garfield County, Oklahoma) U.S.

Ships

* HMS ''Pioneer'', several Royal Navy ships * USS ''Pioneer'', several U.S. Navy ships * USC&GS ''Pioneer'', several U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ships * ''Pioneer'' (paddle-steamer), an 1863 New Zealand gunboat * ''Pioneer'' (submarine), built for the American Civil War * ''Pioneer'' (schooner), an 1885 ship at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City, U.S. * Pioneer (sidewheeler 1849), one of the first steamboats in California, U.S.

Sports

* London Greenhouse Pioneers, an English basketball team *

Pioneer Bowl The Pioneer Bowl was the name of some December college football bowl games played in two different eras. Between 1971 and 1982, the game was contested 10 times in Texas as an NCAA College Division regional final, or as a playoff game for Divis ...

, a football game *

Pioneer Football League The Pioneer Football League (PFL) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as a football-only conference. It has member ...

, a college conference *

Pioneer League (baseball) The Pioneer League is an independent baseball league that operates in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States. Its teams are not directly affiliated with Major League Baseball (MLB). It is designated as an MLB Partner League. From 1939 ...

, a minor league *

Pioneer Race Course Pioneer Race Course, also known as the Pioneer Race Track, was a horse race track opened in March 1851, in the southern Mission District of San Francisco, California. Pioneer was the first race course in San Francisco. At the time that it was buil ...

, a former San Francisco horse racing course *

Sacred Heart Pioneers The Sacred Heart Pioneers are the 32 sports teams (14 men, 18 women) representing Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut in intercollegiate athletics. The Pioneers compete in the NCAA Division I and are members of the Northeast Conferen ...

, the athletic teams of the Sacred Heart University

Other

Pioneer program The Pioneer programs were two series of United States lunar and planetary space probes exploration. The first program, which ran from 1958 to 1960, unsuccessfully attempted to send spacecraft to orbit the Moon, successfully sent one spacecraft to ...

, a series of U.S. lunar, solar, and interplanetary unmanned space missions launched from 1958 through 1978 *

Pioneer species Pioneer species are hardy species that are the first to colonize barren environments or previously biodiverse steady-state ecosystems that have been disrupted, such as by wildfire. Pioneer flora Some lichens grow on rocks without soil, so ...

, a species that colonizes an otherwise barren environment * Pioneering (Scouting), creating structures with ropes and wood spars * Young Pioneers (disambiguation)

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