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    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...
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    Jr. (October 5, 1744 – August 5, 1815) was an American frontiersman, longhunter, soldier, city planner, politician, land locator, judge, politician, gunsmith...
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  • Occasional alternative spellings: "Skeggs" and "Scaggs") was an American longhunter, explorer and pioneer, active primarily on the frontiers of Tennessee...
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    and a tributary of the Cumberland River. It is named after explorer and longhunter Uriah Stone, who navigated the river in 1767. The Stones River is composed...
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    during the 1739 Campaign of the Chickasaw Wars. In the 1750s and 1760s, longhunters from Virginia explored much of East and Middle Tennessee. Settlers from...
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    William Bean (December 9, 1721-May 1782) was an American pioneer, longhunter, and Commissioner of the Watauga Association. He is accepted by historians...
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    on July 21, 2015. Retrieved May 7, 2023. Bogan, Dallas. "Story of the Longhunters in the Beginning". History of Campbell County, Tennessee. Archived from...
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    diplomacy, English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Native American languages Related jobs Longhunter, Coureur des bois, Surveyor, Woodsman, Fur trappers...
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    Reserve, South Africa The indigenous peoples of the Americas and the longhunter watched salt licks to hunt game. Many became well-known, including Bledsoe...
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    fur brigades Portage La Loche Brigade York Factory Express Communities Longhunter Mountain man Other Beaver Wars Indian Trade Deerskin trade Iron Confederacy...
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    (6.7 km2), all of it land. Chilhowie was often the starting point of longhunter expeditions in the 1700s. In 1748 the area was visited by Colonel James...
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    American tribes made it their hunting grounds, as did the 18th century longhunter. In 1773, after the French and Indian War, the Virginia governor sent...
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    settled people in southwest Virginia, but not Kentucky. In 1769, Virginia longhunter and explorer Joseph Martin made the first of several forays into the region...
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  • John Finley (1759-1846) was a pioneer settler of western Pennsylvania. He was born in Cecil County, Maryland and served in the American Revolution. After...
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    fur brigades Portage La Loche Brigade York Factory Express Communities Longhunter Mountain man Other Beaver Wars Indian Trade Deerskin trade Iron Confederacy...
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    Kentucky was born north of Hiseville, KY. Henry Skaggs, famed Kentucky longhunter and pioneer, lived here from 1801. His gravesite is in the Hiseville-Park...
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    fur brigades Portage La Loche Brigade York Factory Express Communities Longhunter Mountain man Other Beaver Wars Indian Trade Deerskin trade Iron Confederacy...
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    456 km2) Hickman County 081 Centerville 1807 Dickson County Edwin Hickman, a longhunter killed by Native Americans near the present-day site of Centerville. 25...
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    fur brigades Portage La Loche Brigade York Factory Express Communities Longhunter Mountain man Other Beaver Wars Indian Trade Deerskin trade Iron Confederacy...
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    area that is now Blountville is thought to have been the location of a longhunter fort prior to its permanent settlement. The site of the town was part...
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  • (the stripper) Law Laws Lazlo Noel Leeja Clane Livewire (Amanda McKee) Longhunter (Israel Crockett) Lord of the Fleas Lounge Lizard Lucinda Mendez (Geomancer...
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    family home and as an inn for prospective settlers, fur traders, and longhunters. The inn and its surrounding area were variously called Bean's Cabin...
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  • Floyd County (now Johnson County), aided in crossing a major river by longhunter Henry Skaggs. With the help of the settlers at Harman's Blockhouse, Jenny...
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    overseer on the huge plantation of his local Virginia kin, next he was a longhunter, and an explorer on the frontier for friend Patrick Henry, then an early...
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  • Casper Mansker also, spelled Mäintzger and Minsker (1750–1820) was a longhunter and one of Middle Tennessee's first European explorers and settlers. Kasper...
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    County was first reported to be settled by Virginia and North Carolina longhunters around the late 1700s to early 1800s, most of whom were of English and...
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    and government advisor in Meiji period Japan Henry Skaggs (1724–1810), longhunter, explorer, and pioneer, lived in Hiseville Luska Twyman (1913–1988), first...
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    fur brigades Portage La Loche Brigade York Factory Express Communities Longhunter Mountain man Other Beaver Wars Indian Trade Deerskin trade Iron Confederacy...
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    fur brigades Portage La Loche Brigade York Factory Express Communities Longhunter Mountain man Other Beaver Wars Indian Trade Deerskin trade Iron Confederacy...
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