antedating boondock (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Paul Frank]

I have no idea if GB has misdated these examples:

"Sam Williams bought this horse from a Haitian who lived so far back
in the bundocks that the horse was not at home in the great open
spaces of the Pan-Am field. " (The Leatherneck: Volume 15, Leatherneck
Association - 1932,
http://books.google.ch/books?id=x6bvAAAAMAAJ&q=%22in+the+bundocks%22&dq=%22in+the+bundocks%22&hl=en&ei=aFSrTPSSCJS7jAea9IXbBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ).

And here is one from 1929, for all I know misdated:

<http://books.google.ch/books?id=zXdLAAAAMAAJ&q=%22in+the+bundocks%22&dq=%22in+the+bundocks%22&hl=en&ei=aFSrTPSSCJS7jAea9IXbBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBQ>

Paul

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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
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> OED has 1944 for "boondock"/"boondocks" as a noun. Â No entry for verb.
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> _Augusta [GA] Chronicle_, 2/7/1941 p 3 col 2
> "Several months there will be spent on the rifle range and devoted to
> "boondocking". Â These important phases are not possible here.
> "Boondocking" is the fashion in which Marines fight in rough country.
> Ordinarily not a popular pastitme, "boondocking" at present would be a
> welcome relief to the well-grooved program followed here."
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> _Cleveland [OH] Plain Dealer_ 4/12/1943 p 11 col 1 [advert for Camel
> cigarettes]
> "In the Marines they say:
> "Walkie-Talkie" ... for signalman with portable 2-way radio set
> "Boondocks" ... for wild country -- outposts" "
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