In the United States, an inhabitant of the forest on the Western frontier.--Webster.
The project of transmuting the classes of American citizens and converting sailors into backwoodsmen is not too monstrous for speculators to conceive and desire.--Fisher Ames's Works, p.144.
I presume, ladies and gentlemen, it is your curiosity to hear the plain uneducated backwoodsman in his home style.--Crockett's Tour, p.126.