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"Backwoodsmen," who had not taken their seats for an age, limped and hobbled up from the counties to plug in hearing aids and listen to the arguments.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the "Backwoodsmen," they considered, had no claim nor title to this land which they ceded to the Government of the United States.

From History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author by Blackbird, Andrew J.

Pressure of the Backwoodsmen on the Spanish Dominions.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Roosevelt, Theodore

They are the vanguard in the march of mind; the intellectual Backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and the activity of their happier brethren.

From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Carlyle, Thomas

The first man who signed the treaty of 1886, one of the Chippewas of the Grand River Indians, whose name was "Mixinene," was a descendant of the Backwoodsmen, whose emblem was a rabbit.

From History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author by Blackbird, Andrew J.