Boone was no simpleton; he was literate, shrewd, and an experienced backwoodsman. His accomplishments were products of his experience.

They regard Howard as a backwoodsman; about as progressive as an umbrella."

But unlike the economists contacted by the Telegraph, a newspaper not noted for its pro-European opinions, I am convinced that the euro will thrive in the future, the union will remain strong, and at some point in the future the UK will stop being the backwoodsman of Europe and join the currency union.

Is music which tickles the ears of billions actually a greater work of communicative genius than the strummings of a critically acclaimed scarf-wearing backwoodsman? A friend recently played me his favourite number by uber-literate songsmith, Nick Cave.

or Lincoln the lover, or Lincoln the backwoodsman, or Lincoln the autodidact, or even Lincoln the idealist.

Such knives may conceivably still have their place on the belt of a Kentucky backwoodsman, for example, or in a circus - but in North Wales?

IT's 51 years since Herman Sherman, a backwoodsman from Virginia, was drafted by the US Army.

Carlos Sorin's delightfully offbeat "The Road to San Diego," about a young backwoodsman with a Maradona fetish, is another audience-friendly addition to the director's repertoire of bizarre human interest stories, most notably his doggy tale "Bombon El Perro." Though it may take some critical drubbing for its vision of Argentines as all naive, goodhearted folk prone to idol worship, the story isn't all fluff, returning to the roles chance and fate, as well as religion and idolatry, play in a man's life.

ANDREW JACKSON captured the White House in 1828 by turning himself into a symbol of American manhood, a tough backwoodsman who dressed, spoke, and acted the part.

If dollars are destiny, how did a Kentucky backwoodsman become the Great Emancipator?

COUNTRYSIDE: I've been reading and enjoying Backwoodsman (PO Box 627, Westcliffe, CO 81252) for a couple years, then I found COUNTRYSIDE.

The chase attracted enormous public attention even before the backwoodsman was finally cornered and killed near the Alaskan border, but not before taking another Mountie with him and wounding two others.

Law, as backwoodsman Inman, and minister's daughter Ada (Kidman) have only time for the briefest courtship in rural Cold Mountain before he's called away to fight for the South.