Howard played Henry Boomhauer, a backwoodsman who befriended the family. Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. Part of the saga of Earl Durrand, outlaw and backwoodsman, was played out in Clark. Admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1795, he appeared in court dressed as a backwoodsman. Sculptor William Henry Rinehart designed the flanking bronze figures of the "Backwoodsman" and the "Indian".