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18th Century Long Hunting Clothing | The term “Long Hunter” is a product of Manifest Destiny historians ... Colonial Gothic, Colonial Activities, Mountain Man Clothing, Wilderness Living, Long Hunter, Time Travel Books, Mountain Man Rendezvous, 19th Century Men, Manifest Destiny

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…

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"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) Arte Cowboy, Mountain Man Rendezvous, David Wright, Mountain Men, The Descendants, American Frontier, Fur Trade, Wilde Westen, Colonial America

"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)

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