MeatEater's American History: The Long Hunters (1761-1775) (Unabridged)

MeatEater's American History: The Long Hunters (1761-1775) (Unabridged‪)‬

Steven Rinella & Clay Newcomb

- 4.8 • 24 Ratings

- $17.99

- $17.99

From the creators of the New York Times bestselling series Campfire Stories: Close Calls comes a new original audiobook that brings to life the bold, hair-raising, and often tragic adventures of a generation of eighteenth-century frontiersmen: the Long Hunters.

Steven Rinella (The MeatEater Podcast) and Clay Newcomb (MeatEater's Bear Grease podcast) gather listeners for a new round of stories, this time drawing from the lives of the rugged Long Hunters, who include such figures as Daniel Boone, Henry Skaggs, and Kasper Mansker. These were the commercial hunters and trappers who explored and exploited the First Far West, the land across the Appalachian Mountains, in the era between the Seven Years War and the American Revolution—one of the most fabled periods of American history.

The feats of these courageous, resilient backwoodsmen forever shaped a national identity centered around individualism, capitalism, freedom, and the need for wild places and wild animals.

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Here’s a slice of American history too often overlooked: the legacy of the Long Hunters, who almost inadvertently aided in opening up the West. These weren’t weekend hunters—they got their name for their treacherous, monthslong wilderness expeditions in the 1700s. Hunting the hides of deer and other animals in Native American territories, they risked their lives on a daily basis for the big paydays their hauls could bring, especially from European merchants. But they lived by a code that honoured the wildlife and the land, and their fortitude represented a uniquely American spirit. Daniel Boone remains the most famous Long Hunter, and he gets plenty of attention here. But Steven Rinella and Clay Newcomb (whose MeatEater TV show approaches hunting from a similarly preservationist viewpoint) take the story all the way back to the 1500s, explaining how European economics set the “world hunt” in motion, affecting global commerce for centuries to come. You can hear Rinella and Newcomb’s excitement about their topic loud and clear in their narration, and the feeling is contagious. Get set to soak up a historical phenomenon as colourful as it is complex.

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