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

By: Steven Rinella, Clay Newcomb
Narrated by: Steven Rinella, Clay Newcomb
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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.

©2024 Steven Rinella (P)2024 Random House Audio
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The in-depth honest history

This is so intriguing they tell you what may be true and may be not in the history. This is my new favorite book. Honestly a really good read with tons of information and history. Love it!!!

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History is wonderful

I am a history teacher. This is the type of history that draws one in. It is a history that is not one track, but multifaceted. If you like hunting, colonial history, world history, economics and so much more give it a listen.

It covers so much that we in the US never think of, but explains capitalism, frontier independence, the complicated NATIVE American experience with European powers and the burgeoning English colonial growth…

I could go on forever.

Marjo Gann

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Amazing. More of these please!

Just another top tier piece of content from the meat eater crew and Steve Rinella!

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Americana

Well put together. Interesting and informative. I like how there is a good explanation to this period and identity of the people early in the settling

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Eye opening

Never realized how much deer skins impacted global markets! These guys embarked on a trip with an almost certain death.

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Amazing Project

I loved the in-depth look of something more people have no idea about! 10/10 will definitely be telling more people about this.

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Possibly the best MeatEater book yet

Well researched; great hybrid of the long-form biography style Clay does with Bear Grease. I absolutely love the tag team narration between Steve & Clay!

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great

really great presentation and thoughtful. this really filled in the gaps in my history and understanding of this time frame.

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Captivating

You can feel the passion behind Steve and Clay as they read this audiobook. This is a topic not very well covered, and I was thrilled with the quality of story telling as well as the information in it, as well. 5/5.

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Well researched, annoying format.

I love Meateater and Bear Grease, both Steve Rinnela and Clay Newcomb have distinctive storytelling abilities, however, this format of splitting narration by paragraphs or even sentences makes the story choppy and lack flow. The story was well researched and contains alot of detail. I look forward to the forthcoming Meateater American History Series.

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