pathmaker

From path +‎ maker.

pathmaker (plural pathmakers)

1. One who, or that which, makes a way or path.
   • 1910, John Burroughs, “Phases of Farm Life”, in In the Catskills, page 67:

     The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker.

• “pathmaker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.