Saw it here first, passing it back on.
See also
"Penobscot man; the life history of a forest tribe in Maine," Speck, Frank Gouldsmith,
"The Road Through Sandwich Notch," Yates, Elizabeth
and
"Genius and lust : a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller" [compiled] by Norman Mailer.
That last one isn't really about the backcountry in general, but you started this.
Last,
--M.
or try:
The log cabin in America; from pioneer days to the present
Weslager, C. A. (Clinton Alfred), 1909-1994
New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press [1969]
xxv, 382 p. illus., maps, ports. 25 cm.
or
The log cabin myth; a study of the early dwellings of the English colonists in North America,
Shurtleff, Harold R. (Harold Robert), 1883-1938.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1939.
xxi, 243 p. front., illus., plates. 22 cm.