'Out in the ginsengs'?

[Bernard Schulmann]

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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