What's the difference between backwoodsman and frontiersman?
Backwoodsman
Definition:
(n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) In particular, it settled on a character named Harlan DeGroat, played by Woody Harrelson, depicted as a sociopathic backwoodsman who takes part in bare knuckle fights up in the mountains.
(2) Nonetheless, it is striking that Chippenham is being fought not by any old Tory backwoodsman out of the pages of Horse & Hound , but by Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones , the self-appointed "black farmer" turned would-be MP.