backwoodsman

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

Boone was in every way a typical backwoodsman.

From Stories of Old Kentucky by Martha Grassham Purcell

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

Confronted with half a dozen strapping backwoodsmen with rum on their breath and Valley Forge on their lips, he reluctantly agreed to support their fight to make all pensions forever exempt from taxation.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

These settlers are usually called backwoodsmen, because they live in the remote forests.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian