Long hunter

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18th century long hunter equipment | Woodsrunner's Diary: Tools of the Trade.

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WHO WERE THE LONG HUNTERS The term “Long Hunter” is a product of Manifest Destiny historians, and is used today to describe the woodsmen who hunted for extended periods of time in the land once known as the “Middle Ground.” Today we refer to the “Middle Ground” as the present states of Kentucky and Tennessee. Not everyone who hunted was a Long Hunter. The true Long Hunter was a professional, and made his living by market hunting. Many of these professional hunters came from the western…

On Meat Alone. The list of period foods is quite long, but whose foods are they? Would a woodsrunner bother to carry dried peas, parched corn, oats & currents? Somehow I don’t think so. It all adds to the weight, & sooner or later it has to run out, & what then? Well, he or she hunts for meat. So I started looking for the least weighty foods, & foods that would compliment meat. Jerky is mentioned many times, & this food I think was pretty popular with woodsrunners, & so was bread, or flour…

"The backwoodsmen were American by birth and parentage, and of mixed race, but the dominate strain in their blood was that of the Presbyterian-Irish, the Scots-Irish as they were often called. Mingled with the descendants of many other races, they nevertheless formed the kernel of the distinctively and intensely American stock who were pioneers of our people in their march westward..." President Theodore Roosevelt (pic by David Wright, artist)