Word: backwoodsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Theater. As literature, the stage plays "may be regarded with pious horror." But they may also be regarded as folk expressions. While there was little interest in individuals as such, the interest in types was strong: The Yankee, The Backwoodsman, The Negro, The Comic Irishman were immensely popular...
Matt Howard (Gary Grant) is a husky, handsome backwoodsman with a slight Scottish accent who woos and wins Jane Peyton (Martha Scott), a well-heeled Tory from Williamsburg, Va. Matt Howard takes his bride to the backwoods, where together they raise a family of three, build an inappropriately ornate house, try to reconcile their clashing view points. As a backwoods member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Matt is fired by rabble-rousing Patrick Henry (Richard Gaines), and by the quiet logic of his good friend Thomas Jefferson (Richard Carlson). When war comes he marches off to battle, endures...