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Post by armando on Nov 23, 2021 4:20:55 GMT -7
This is an interesting link for any wanting to cross-reference the names of some real long hunters. Long Hunters mentioned in an article by Henry Hamilton. (See also Long Hunters Mail List). The original of these articles was published in the Bulletin of the Historical Society of Southwest Virginia), #5, March, 1970. pages 29 through 61. Additional Long Hunters have been added to Hamilton's summary, based on Drapers "The Life of Daniel Boone", first published in 1998. This later work was first published (posthumously) in 1998; since it is still under copyright, extensive passages cannot be quoted, and the interested reader is encouraged to examine this monumental, but incomplete work. List of Long Hunters
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Post by spence on Nov 23, 2021 8:06:53 GMT -7
Thanks, Armando, good link. In about 1770 a group of long hunters set up a camp near a small stream in what is now Adair County, Kentucky. They built a skin house to store their pelts, but it was raided by Indians. They carved on a beech tree, "2300 skins lost, ruination, by God." The site is near Greensburg, Ky., and is now know as Skinhouse Branch. Here's a monument with the names of some of the long hunters there. Spence
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