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• n  a man who lives on the frontier

• Though he likes to portray himself as a poor backwoodsman, Faubus has been embarrassed by adverse comment on his new $280,000 home and, in any case, he has good reason to fear .
• The novel opens with the sudden news that Lucas Beauchamp has shot Vinson Gowrie, a backwoodsman.
• He is a Georgia backwoodsman who can't get the hang of spitting his tobacco accurately, let alone of making his teammates respect or even like him very much.

• frontiersman
• mountain man

News & Articles

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• Northern Exposure: Covering issues of Northern California
  The ad in "The Backwoodsman" magazine is as mysterious as the property for sale: No phone number, defunct URL, and the closest national park is 50 miles away.
  Aug. 3, 2013 - The Sacramento Bee

Quotes

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• Ross Lockridge, Jr. in Chicago Tribune
  The turn from insult to term of pride may be seen as the word becomesapplied to what Ross Lockridge Sr., a popularizer of his state's history,called "the rough and sturdy backwoodsman of early Indiana."