Some folks buy or make a shelter from a square or rectangle of cloth, aka a Diamond Shelter or a Trail Tarp View attachment 4196īTW, if you're a hunter, could be a market hunter, station hunter, hide hunter, contract hunter, subsistence hunter, and sometimes folks just say "frontiersman"., but when you write "long hunter", just be aware that many folks consider these to be men who crossed from VA through the Cumberland Gap, into the Kan-tuc-kee lands to hunt hides, from 1760-1770. Now., since a lot of guys trek in areas where you cannot build a lean-to or open faced shelter, they compromise on this historic point, and carry a piece of canvas, sometimes oil cloth, to construct a temporary shelter.
SONS OF A TRACKLESS FOREST PORTABLE
So as for portable shelters., they built them when they made a working camp, or they simply slept in their blanket. If you can get a copy, look at Sons of A Trackless Forest by Mark Baker So there were British subjects who were hunters and were out there. FYI George Morgan had a post at Kaskaskia, in what is now Illinois, in the 1760's, and a lot of what we know about riflemen and hunters of that time period come from Morgan's records concerning his Contract Hunters, who hunted for both meat and hides. (Well that's his opinion) And so, long hunter from "Ohio" would be difficult, as it was part of the Northwest Territory until Ohio became a State in 1803, and prior to that was mostly Indian lands, with some exceptions along the Mississippi river where trading posts were established, as well as along the Ohio Rive. Historian Emory Hamilton is very specific on the term, "The Long Hunter was peculiar to Southwest Virginia only, and nowhere else on any frontier did such hunts ever originate". They are a lot cheaper, when DIY, and often lighter as well.īTW, if you're a hunter, could be a market hunter, station hunter, hide hunter, contract hunter, subsistence hunter, and sometimes folks just say "frontiersman"., but when you write "long hunter", just be aware that many folks consider these to be men who crossed from VA through the Cumberland Gap, into the Kan-tuc-kee lands to hunt hides, from 1760-1770. I'd suggest that you look into making one yourself. Some folks buy or make a shelter from a square or rectangle of cloth, aka a Diamond Shelter or a Trail TarpĪlthough the above image is from one tentmaker's catalog, you get he idea what a square of cloth or rectangle can do.
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