Long john hunter biography of william
Long john hunter biography of william
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Longhunter
Frontier hunters in Kentucky and Tennessee
Daniel Boone, one of the most famous longhunters, on the early American frontier | |
| Names | Longhunter, long hunter |
|---|---|
| Competencies | Trapping, hunting, fishing, skinning, marksmanship, self-defense, trading, canoeing, horsemanship, tracking, exploring, mental and physical toughness, wilderness survival skills, folk medicine, frontier doctoring, diplomacy, English, French, Spanish, and Native American languages |
Related jobs | Coureur des bois, Mountain man |
A longhunter (or long hunter) was an 18th-century explorer and hunter who made expeditions into the American frontier for as much as six months at a time.
While historian Emory Hamilton says that "The Long Hunter was peculiar to Southwest Virginia only...", many also hailed from North Carolina's western piedmont. [1] The term has also been used loosely to describe any unofficial European American explorer of the period.
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