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Definition of Backwoodsmen
1. backwoodsman [n] - See also: backwoodsman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backwoodsmen
Literary usage of Backwoodsmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"backwoodsmen AND OTHER EARLY TYPES From 'The Winning of the West. ... were determined
by the extreme and defiant individualism of the backwoodsmen, ..."
2. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt (1903)
"CHAPTER V THE backwoodsmen OF THE ALLEGHANIES 1769-1774 ALONG the western frontier
of the colonies that were so soon to be the United States, ..."
3. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"backwoodsmen AND OTHER EARLY TYPES From (The Winning of the \Vest. ... were determined
by the extreme and defiant individualism of the backwoodsmen, ..."
4. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1896)
"The approach of a hostile force and the rumour of Indian war had aroused the
hardy backwoodsmen who dwelt in these wild and romantic glens. ..."
5. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"[These were the backwoodsmen on the Ohio frontier. The editor adds, in an apologetic
foot-note, that the description should have been confined to a few ..."
6. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1875)
"For men he relied solely on volunteer backwoodsmen of south-western Penn- 1
Hamilton to Germain, 14 July, 1777, and Ibid., 27 July, ..."
7. The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt (1889)
"CHAPTER V. THE backwoodsmen OF THE ALLEGHANIES. 1769-1774. ALONG the western
frontier of the colonies that were so soon to be the United States, ..."
8. The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt (1889)
"CHAPTER V. THE backwoodsmen OF THE ALLEGHANIES. 1769-1774. ALONG the western
frontier of the colonies that were so soon to be the United States, ..."
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