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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
unsettled regions remote from civilization; the wilderness beyond the explored areas.
Quotations
1785
The poor man gave us some account of their expedition into the back country.
1826
The Hunting grounds immediately on the Northern banks of the Columbia are nearly exhausted in respect to Fur bearing Animals but the back country is still productive. . . .
1955
These back-country Indians do not make friends easily. . . .
1964
. . . devil's club [is] the thorned scourge of hikers in much of British Columbia's back country
2
a rural region; farm district.
See: outlands
Quotations
1844
A road into the interior . . . would not only benefit Kingston, (so much in want of a productive back country) but would open new tracts for settlement. . . .
1965
The nearest doctor was 70 miles away over a poor back-country road. . . .