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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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On this week’s episode of Bear Grease, your host, Clay Newcomb, is bringing you the saga of the American Plott Hound - a story not without drama. Plotts are a breed of big game hound specializing in bear hunting. They were originally bred deep in the mountains of Southern Appalachia, specifically Haywood County, North Carolina. The breed, which carries the family name of Plott, was kept in isolation for nearly 150 years while being refined by the frontier mountaineers of Appalachia. The Plott Hound is anything but mainstream, but in his extensive travels to meet Plott Hound men and women, Clay has met some of the finest, salt-of-the-earth people in America. This is a fascinating story of true Americana and we really doubt you’re going to want to miss this one…
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0:00.0 | Get ready for the best thing ever done on the blood-soaked story of the white-tailed deer skin trade of the 1700s. |
0:08.0 | It's meat-eaters American history, The Longhunters, 1761 to 1775. |
0:14.5 | Narrated by me, Clay Newcombe, and my good friend Stephen Ronella, |
0:19.0 | this audio book is the first installment in Meat Eater's American History series. |
0:24.4 | This is big. |
0:25.6 | It's a wild tale about a fascinating group of Back Woodsman |
0:29.4 | and a forgotten trade in the deer skins of North America's favorite big game animal. |
0:34.8 | Featuring the story of Daniel Boone, the long hunters, and the Native Americans that were |
0:40.4 | involved in the deer skin trade. |
0:43.0 | This era is what became the foundation of American deer hunting |
0:47.5 | and we have compiled a never before compiled amount of data. |
0:54.4 | And we've researched stuff that's never been researched before. |
0:57.5 | I'm serious, this is groundbreaking stuff, |
1:00.4 | and I'm thrilled to be a part of it. It's out on January 9th, but you can pre-order it now wherever |
1:06.4 | audio books are sold. That's Meateaters American History, The Longhunters, 1761 to 1775, available for pre-order now. |
1:22.2 | Well, he used a good word there, story. I call it a saga. And I sure hope I don't disappoint you. |
1:31.0 | We can't prove this. We can't prove this. Some stories are so sacred, so old. You almost have to earn the |
1:39.2 | permission to tell them. This is one of those. I don't think it could be told by an outsider, by like |
1:46.4 | a visiting journalist. The only way to tell the story is from the inside. The audacity of my attempt comes after nearly a decade of |
1:55.0 | curiosity hunting with and meeting some of America's top |
1:59.6 | plothound families and historians and may be most critical being a plot man myself. |
2:06.0 | Well that is even if I qualify but I feel like I'm ready. |
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