longhunter woodsmen books

[olgreenhead]

Im looking a few books on the longhunter of the 1700 period and of the colonial woodsmen area,Since on would like to portay one of these people . Thanks For the help . Art

 

Buy Pilgrims' Journey, by Mark Baker. It is pretty inclusive.

Frontier Rifleman is old but still good and has good documentation that never goes out of date.

Beth Gilgun's Tidings From The 18th Century is one of the best for the clothes you will need.

You should also read the Journel of Nicolis Giswell, the Journel of Issac Weld, the works of Dodridge and probably 100,000 pages of old obscure tomes you never heard of before, like the Draper Manuscripts.

If you read the top list you can develop a persona. If you read the bottom list you will qualify as a stich counting maniac!

One word of caution, go straight to the documentation or documented sources. Don't take anyone's word for it just because "I been doing this for ?????? years".

Being an old timer don't count for manure if you been doing it wrong for the whole time. Lots of folks fall into that catagory.

If the guy owns a tee pee and lives in NY run like he!!.

 

[chuck Smith]

if you can find it buy
Mark bakers book sons of a trackless forest
Chuck S

 

[AZ-Robert]

Recreating the American Longhunter: 1740-1790, by Joseph Ruckman, 63 pages, ISBN 0-963158-6-5, Graphics/Fine Arts Press, P.O. Box 321, Excelsior Springs, MO 64024; available from a number of vendors as well as here:
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