Thanks for the posting Chuck!
In reading through some of these, one particular statement caught my attention and has sit my old mind to thinking quite a bit.
Can't rightly say just why I never thought about this before, at least in this light, but all at once it was like a bell went off.
" In the annals of American history there is no braver lot than these early hunters. Not only did they endure the rigorous winters in crude shelters but the danger of sickness, privation, exposure, hunting accidents, and the very real and ever present danger of being scalped by the Indians. They were especially disliked by the Indians, being looked upon as robbers of their hunting grounds, which they truly were, and also, as forerunners of the ever-spreading, land-clearing, soil-tilling settler."
The part about were they were looked upon as "robbers of the Indians own hunting ground" suddenly took on new meaning.
Prior to reading this, I always thought of the land they were hunting was like, free, unexplored, a no-man's land, and open for the taking of game as "anyone" saw fit.
My reason for this thinking was, of course, from my own reading, and from what I had been told going waaaay back to my youthful years.
I've always known their exploits with the native peoples was much more than what the average Settler of that day and time had ever experienced, but I somehow never quite put two and two together to understand the reason why....but suddenly I know, and it all makes sense, IMO
Uncle Russ...
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