backwoods
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The stories from “Heart Songs” take place in backwoods Vermont, but most of Ms. Proulx’s work is set in Wyoming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
They paid the midwife $7.50 for me — this was in the backwoods of Louisiana.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
Rust Cohle slow dances with murmurings about Carcosa in Season 1, and the anthology’s creator Nic Pizzolatto spiced up the mystique by depositing backwoods fetishes near crime scenes.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024
Dakota Adams - he and his mother now use her maiden name - spent much of his earliest years not in the backwoods of Montana, but in the middle of America's east coast power centres.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2022
In close quarters he suffered their backwoods lubricity and knucklehead talk.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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