Definition of "back country" [back country]

• A remote part of a country (noun)

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• "But not long after I got to Camden, my master came from the state of Virginia, to Camden, Kent County, state of Delaware, where he found me; whereas he had not seen me since he put me aboard of the back country waggon, which, as I suppose, is near three or four hundred miles"
• "Then, at Pan's pace-out there in the back country the peasants still secretly honored him, a fact that put a tad of pep in his step-they set off in the direction of France."
• "Page 202 minutely into the discussion of the question made in the Maryland, and assented to in the New-Hampshire Report, whether previous to the several cessions which have been made to the general government, the non-ceding states were in justice entitled to participate in the extensive back country which then formed a part of the states, which have since made such large cessions to the United States; because they cannot see how it can be made to have any bearing upon the main question."