backwoods

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We found them very busy felling trees, clearing backwood, and completing the stockade or fort.

From Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery by Marryat, Frank

A stable and pig-sty completed the appurtenances of this backwood dwelling.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various

The whole formed a pretty picture of backwood manoeuvres; but, like the Boers in South Africa, the Canadians proved themselves more mobile than the English, and more skilful in ambuscade.

From A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical by Lucas, Charles Prestwood

The house itself, although far more spacious and comfortable than the majority of backwood farmhouses, was built in the usual fashion, of solid logs, and was evidently designed to resist attack.

From True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Here, after supper, most of the company stretched themselves in backwood style, before the fire; but Washington was shown into a bed-room.

From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Irving, Washington