Longhunter
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A Longhunter (or long hunter) was an eighteenth century explorer and hunter who made expeditions into the American frontier wilderness for as much as six months at a time. Hamilton asserts that "The Long Hunter was peculiar to Southwest Virginia only, and nowhere else on any frontier did such hunts ever originate"[1] although the term has been used loosely to describe any unofficial American explorer of the period. Most long hunts started in the Holston Valley near Chilhowie, Virginia. The hunters came from there and the adjacent valley of the River Clinch where they were land owners or residents. The parties of two or three men (and rarely more) usually started in October and ended towards the end of March, or early in April.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Emory L. Hamilton. Historical Sketches of Southwest Virginia 5: The Long Hunters (Wise, Virginia: Historical Society of Southwest Virginia, March 1970)
- ^ Emory L. Hamilton. Historical Sketches of Southwest Virginia 5: The Long Hunters (Wise, Virginia: Historical Society of Southwest Virginia, March 1970)
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