backwoodsman
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He managed to keep working in small projects in theater, films and TV, returning to the mainstream in 1983 with “Cross Creek,” in which he played table-smashing backwoodsman Marsh Turner.
From Fox News ● Jul. 10, 2019
“I felt every bit a backwoodsman, and it threw me off the mark.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
The Descent works so well because it adds a creepy Darwinian overtone to the well-worn horror staple of the inbred, bestial backwoodsman.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2016
Among them were “The Hunt,” in which a recently deceased backwoodsman is saved by his beloved hunting dog from accidentally wandering into Hell.
From Time ● Mar. 25, 2016
“Sufferin’ cats!” exclaimed the old backwoodsman, as he faced his grinning audience, “I’ve faced b’ars an’ painters an’ catamounts, but I wuz never so plumb skeered in all my life!
From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Margaret Penrose
He was more than capable of inspiring his fellow rough-hewn backwoodsmen to join his command and leading them into battle, often to their detriment, but great leadership is only one aspect of command.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2022
Taxidermy, long the domain of backwoodsmen and museum employees, is enjoying a vogue lately among young urbanites, due in part to a back-to-the-land revival that also favors beards, flannel and butchery workshops.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2010
Like many regional novels, Green Margins seems most authentic in its portraits of unspoiled backwoodsmen, most high-brow and overblown in its accounts of intellectuals, city dwellers, artists.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the Carolina citizens who clustered about him to celebrate the victory of provincial backwoodsmen over British loyalist militia at Kings Mountain 150 years ago, President Hoover spoke of the "ideals and ideas of America."
From Time Magazine Archive
Only imagine one of these despairing backwoodsmen inditing an Ovidian epistle to his unknown mistress—"down east,"—wooing her to come and be wooed!
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
