Where did the term, Boone Docks, or boondocks originate?

Webster says that the origin is the Tagalog "bundok" meaning mountain. In any event, boondocks means a rough, rural area - the sticks.

Main Entry: boon·docks

Pronunciation: \ˈbün-ˌdäks\

Function: noun plural

Etymology: Tagalog bundok mountain

Date: 1930

1 : rough country filled with dense brush

2 : a rural area : sticks

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boondock

Tagalog bundok (mountain).

Noun

boondocks (plural only; not used in singular form)

A very rural location or town.

We got lost out in the boondocks, miles from anywhere.

Translations

very rural area[Show]

French: régions arriérées m. pl.

German: Einöde f., Pampa f., Walachei f., Kartoffelsteppe f., Hundetürkei f., vulg. Arsch der Welt m.

Romanian: coclauri pl.

See also

boonies

(the) sticks

backwoods

backwater

middle of nowhere

Eckveldt (Yiddish)

my dad in his 70'S has been using it since i was a kid, he grew up in Kansas far from no where. not sure where he got it from