In past commercial mass entertainment novels the dark side remittance man has been popularized.
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Unless one is a remittance man or woman, today's travel writer is more likely to be a travel journalist.
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He is a remittance man, a gentleman traveler with an eye for adventure and a hand on his letter of credit.
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I suppose, looking back, he may have been a remittance man, the scion of a good family who played up and was sent to the far colonies with an allowance and asked not to return.
From the nzherald.co.nz
A remittance man could be a younger son trying to escape the shadow of elder dominating sons to seek his own fortune and proof of worth, such as George Vanderbilt of the Biltmore Estate.
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Hard by the northern limits of their depredation we found and find a statue of Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, famous 17th century hophead and remittance man.