'Out in the ginsengs'?

[Yakima Belle]

Beats me. According to the USDA there are no native
ginseng spp. in Oregon or Washington.

--- Bernard Schulmann <bernard at SHAMA.CA> wrote:

> During the 1990s the dry country around Kamloops and
> Lillooet grew a  
> lot of ginseng.   Many hundreds of acres of fields
> were under the  
> black raised tarps.
> 
> The crop was also popular in eastern Washington and
> Oregon.   So, I  
> presume that this is a reference that all the is out
> in these areas is  
> the ginseng, so yes, a term for the boonies
> 
> Bernard
> 
> Quoting Dave Robertson <ddr11 at UVIC.CA>:
> 
> > Very remotely related to our subject...
> >
> > Anyone here heard the term 'out in the ginsengs'?
> >
> > I caught it in a book by Oregon rancher Herman
> Oliver.  It seems to
> > mean 'out in the sticks / boonies / tules'.
> >
> > No Google hits.  I'm a little curious.
> >
> > On a similar note, there supposedly was or is a
> perception that there are
> > two kinds of Chilcotin Indians: Stone or Ston(e)y,
> and Stick Chilcotins.
> > This is per James Teit's 1909 information in the
> unsolved historical
> > mysteries site, www.mysteryquests.ca.
> >
> > --Dave R
> >
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