The longhunter himself would be attired in a hunting shirt, usually made from flax wool lindsey cloth. The shirt was topped with a loose coat that reached to mid-thigh and decorated with colored fringes. The coat wrapped around the hunters waist and was held together with a broad belt. officers wore brightly colored sashes around their waist. Each hunter would wear a floppy rimmed hat - not the coonskin cap of present day fame. Leggings were worn to protect the legs from briars and brush, these were held up by garters that were tied at the knee. A breech cloth was worn instead of trousers, or sometimes in addition to trousers. On his feet the longhunter wore moccasins - which were said to be a polite way of going barefoot. The longhunter would then carry along the following equipment/supplies: tomahawk shot bag powder horn rifle blanket, folded under his saddle knapsack
long knife - commonly referred to as a "scalping knife" pistols swords bullet mold lead bar
The longhunters rifle was carried as part of himself,. It became second nature for him to have it in his hands. Alone in the woods a longhunter needed to be able to run fast, hide, strike hard and mercilessly as necessary. Station Camps varied in size depending upon the length of the hunt - some later became forts. Station Camp was used to store skins. The profits from the sale of the skins were later used to purchase more supplies for the hunters. Some of the first hunters who hunted on the Clinch were: Elisha Wallen, Henry Scaggs, Blevins, Cox and others. The following is a listing of individuals who have been named as longhunters or associated closely with them: Aldridge, James Allen, William Anderson, George Anderson, William Bainford, Epaphronditus i Baker, John Baker, Joseph ii Baker Robert III Baker. William Biles, Stephen Blankenship, Joseph Bledsoe, Abraham Bledsoe, Anthony Bledsoe, Isaac Blevins, John Blevins, William Boone, Daniel Boone, Squire Brooks, Castleton Brown, Joseph Buchanan, Colonel John Bryan, L Byrd, William Callaway, Samuel Campbell, Captain Charles Carr, Samuel Carr, William Castleman, Benjamin Chew, Colby Christian, Gilbert Christian, Israel
Christian, Robert Cleveland, Benjamin Clinch, Duncan Cooley, William Copeland, "Big Jo" Cowan, Ned Cox, Charles Crabree, William Crocket, Robert Croghan or Crawford, George Cutbird or Cutbirth, Benjamin de Montbrun, Jacques Timothe Boucher de Montbrun, Jean Baptist Drake, Joseph Eaton, Amos Finley, John Floyd, John, two unidentified Frenchmen in 1761-1763 Girth, Simon Gist, Christopher Gist, Nathaniel Gist Thomas Gordon, Thomas iii Green, Lewis, Jr. iv Green, Lewis, Sr. Halliday, A. Harilson, William Harmon, Jacob Harrod, James
Hogan, Humphrey Holden, Joseph Hollingshead, Joseph Holsteiner, George Michael (a/k/a Michael Stoner) Holston or Holstein, Stephen Horton or Houghton, Joshua Hughes, John Jamie (negro slave) Kenton, Simon Knox, James Lawless, Henry Lindsey, Isaac Linville, John Linville, William Lynch, David Lynch, William Mansker or Mansco, Kaspar Mc Afee (3 brothers or kinsmen) Montgomery, John Mooney, James Morgan, George Neely, Alexander Newmman, Walter Newman, William Patterson, Erwin Patton, Colonel James Pearis, Richard Pittman, William Powell, Ambrose
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Price, Thomas Pringle, John Pringle, Samuel Rains, John Sandusky or Sodowski, Jacob Sawyers, John Scaggs, Henry (a/k/a Henry v Suggs) Scaggs, Richard Sevier, Valentine Simpson, John Smith, Henry Smith, James Spencer, Thomas Sharpe Stalnacher, Samuel Stone, Uriah Stoph, Christopher Stewart or Stuart, John Strader, Adam Swift, _______ Terrell, Obediah Tomlinson, William Tumbler, ______ Vaughan, ______ Vigo, Franciso Walker, Dr. Thomas Wallen, Elisha Ward, James Williams, John Wood, Colonel Yeager, George