Word: backwoodsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born in Kentucky and taught school in Pulaski County for six years, handles the talk of the hill people and evokes a picture of the countryside with the sureness of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. There is no question of her success in picturing the profane and pious old people, the backwoodsmen with fine old names like Ballew and Hull, the proud parents who gave their children names like Alben W. Barkley Tiller, the farmers working on the WPA or in the automobile factories of Detroit...
Winter vacationers are slowly learning something that Maine backwoodsmen have known for generations: that ice fishing can make a person just as happy and almost as cold as speeding down the side of Pico Peak. It's also the only way to stay home and go fishing at the same time...
Desperate, Hopeless, Suicidal. The battle in Rebellion in the Backlands is the story of a desperate, last-ditch, hopeless, outnumbered defense of a handful of backwoodsmen against the army. The rebels were fanatics, maddened, suicidal, skillful, soldiers in a holy war, throwing away their lives and dying stoically, silently...