Longhunters of Early America

[SuspiciousFish]

There is a great YouTube channel I watch called Townsends. This guy does a lot of reenactments and cooking etc from the 1700s. Here is an episode on the Long Hunters in America and provides some cool insight on the weapons and campcraft these guys had to work with hundreds of years ago:

 

[diamond10x]

I love that guys channel, educational and entertaining. I have a hard time watching one video and not getting sucked into about 4 or 5 more at a time.

I’m reading a book right now on Daniel Boone and America’s first frontier. Pretty good, goes right along with what these videos are about. What’s crazy and I never realized, long hunters or long hunting as it’s categorized happened in a tiny little time period here in the USA. The name of the book I mentioned is ‘Blood and Treasure’ if you’re interested OP.

 

[LongWayAround]

Thanks for sharing. I get a kick out of Townsends.


It reminded me of this article from RMEF that I saw a little while back.

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[SuspiciousFish]

I love that guys channel, educational and entertaining. I have a hard time watching one video and not getting sucked into about 4 or 5 more at a time.

I’m reading a book right now on Daniel Boone and America’s first frontier. Pretty good, goes right along with what these videos are about. What’s crazy and I never realized, long hunters or long hunting as it’s categorized happened in a tiny little time period here in the USA. The name of the book I mentioned is ‘Blood and Treasure’ if you’re interested OP.

It definitely sucks you in. After a long day its nice to sit back and watch them put together meat pies etc.

I need to check out that book, do you have the title? Right now I am reading 'Soldiers and Traveler, the Memoirs of Alexander Gardener'. Its about a man from Wisconsin in the 1800s that was one of the first white travelers to explore the remote parts of Central Asia. He ended up as a mercenary for the Sikh army and the crazy politics and intrigue that happened in the palaces out there. Here is a video on him, definitely one of the more interesting figures that many dont know about:

('Flashman and the Mountain of Light' is one of the greatest historical fiction novels of all time btw)

 

[SuspiciousFish]

I love that guys channel, educational and entertaining. I have a hard time watching one video and not getting sucked into about 4 or 5 more at a time.

I’m reading a book right now on Daniel Boone and America’s first frontier. Pretty good, goes right along with what these videos are about. What’s crazy and I never realized, long hunters or long hunting as it’s categorized happened in a tiny little time period here in the USA. The name of the book I mentioned is ‘Blood and Treasure’ if you’re interested OP.

My apologies, I reread your post and see the title. I am definitely checking the book out.

 

[beachbunny]

thanks op

 

[BLJ]

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[Keptwalkin]

Very cool, thanks OP

 

[3325]

What’s crazy and I never realized, long hunters or long hunting as it’s categorized happened in a tiny little time period here in the USA.

I suppose this is true “as it’s categorized.” But it usually seems to be categorized as men going to Kentucky and Tennessee, from Virginia and North Carolina, in the 1760s - 1770s, to hunt for six months to a year before returning home. There were those that didn’t neatly fit that category that were certainly of the longhunter “type.”

They were backwoodsmen, leatherstockings, frontiersmen, rangers, scouts, Indian fighters, or just plain old hunters.

Lewis Wetzel was a famous one. Okay, infamous - he was probably a psychopath. But he was from that general time and place and he was certainly good in the woods. I believe the scene in Last of the Mohicans where Nathaniel reloads his flintlock rifle on the run was inspired by Wetzel.

 

[TxxAgg]

I really like the Townsend channel

Here's another I enjoy. "The Woodland Escape" Also discusses the late1700s