![]() The All Dressed Up With No Place To Go blog.A Small Mountain Man Rendezvous in America.Images of making a (trade) Axe at Wood Trekker.Narrative of the Captivity of William Biggs.A Link To: Gervase Markham's The English Housewif.I assume "11" refers to the page number of the work in question. "as they were called" hints to me it's likely a term of the era.Įmphasis in the original. but whether they used it at the time is inconclusive. it looks like the folks who were there used the word. Knox returne to Virginia & was one of the company of long hunters as they were called from being absent from the settled parts of Virginia twelve month in a single hunt. In recalling the initial entrance of Knox into the hunting grounds of Kentucky, Wickliffe explains, "after Christmas Col. In a letter to the historian Draper, Robert Wickliffe endorsed the same view as tat promoted by Marshall - perhaps even paraphrasing Marshall's earlier publication. Marshall attributes the title being first used in relationship to one of James Knox's 1769-72 hunting parties (dates of long hunt vary by a year, depending on source). Marshall states that, "None of this company, led on, but the present Colonel James Knox, reached Kentucky and from the time they were absent, obtained the name LONG HUNTERS (11)*. But in the book History of Kentucky, written by Humphrey Marshall and first published in 1812, one valuable hint can be found. Baker's "Sons of a Trackless Forest" but references the first hand material -Įxactly when the title long hunter first came into common use has been obscured through time. Until then they are woodsmen and hunters regardless of the length of time they are in the woods. Personally I think it is time we stopped using this term "longhunter" until someone can come up with proof that the term was in use in the 18th century. My point here is, that if the term longhunter was not in use in the 18th century, then why are we using it now? Fine to say a woodsman has been gone for a long time, fine to say he has been out there hunting for a long time now, but to call him a longhunter? At what point is an ordinary hunter supposed to become a long one? months at a time.īut this does not make them any different from any other woodsman who hunts, they did not wear different clothes or use different guns. Woodsmen who hunted commercially for meat and deer skins are now called longhunters because they were in the woods hunting for a long time, i.e. Well in fact the modern meaning of a so called longhunter is that he hunted for a long time, or he was in the woods hunting for a long time. So what was this so called longhunter supposed to be? I mean we now see adverts for "longhunter shirts" and "longhunter packs", and the list goes on as if this longhunter was something special, out of the ordinary compared to a woodsman. So far I have found no proof that this term was ever in existance before the 20th century! ![]() By this I mean the word or term longhunter or long hunter actually being used in the 18th century. I challenge anyone to find primary documentation that a longhunter existed in the 18th century. ![]()
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