Through visuals and immersive storytelling, I strive to bring stories of early American frontier history to life. From authentic reenactments, camping, trekking, and survival through in-depth explorations, each video is a visual time capsule that transports you to a bygone era.
New subscriber here! Really enjoy your content and style/approach. I’m just getting started (live in southeast Kansas) with a frontiersman impression. I find that the hard part is discovering what events to go to, especially the ones you go to. Would be great if you showcased a series of them that you recommend. Also would love to meet like minded individuals in my area. This weekend I’m attending my first event at Fall River park near Toronto KS. It’s a mountain man rendezvous. Will try to make a video presentation of it on my channel for others to evaluate if they are interested for next year. Thanks again! Best. Sam
pleasure, looking forward to more of your content! You seem to be a natural at this. I’m still trying to get over being on video and hearing my own voice 😅
Im very familiar with the value of hickory nuts. Theyre still used somewhat today by some of the older Cherokee. But it is beginning to be a thing of the past. A tree stump is hollowed out and the hickory mm nuts are beaten, shells and all, into a type of mixture that can be formed into "kunuchi" balls for storage. For use the balls are dropped in boiling water then run through a cloth or sive to separate the shell bits. Its mixed with hominy, or in modern days, rice. A little salt, a little honey or sweetener and youve got yourself a first rate hot cereal. But I'll warn you, eat enough kunuchi it'll make you fat as a pig.
Thank you for that! I so wanted to discuss kunuchi in this video but decided to stick with how it was described through their eyes. Maybe this video will help one more person bring it all back to life and it won’t disappear from our cultures.
My Grandpa told me about helping his grandma to make hickory nut oil. He also loved hickory nut sofkee. When he passed away, my great aunt made sofkee and I pounded up the hickory nuts and added them to it and put it in his casket.
Frunny. But in today, they still use the Nipa Bamboo in the Philippines to carry water, cook and many other things. Not in the baragays or cities, but in the providences. In fact.. basically cook 18 Century. I go once a year and have for several years now. excluding the lock downs that is.
Very industrious, ambitious, and clean work. Over the years, I started with edge seaming my tarps and found the seams to far outlast the tarp itself, i most often use a half-under-half-over style and ground exposure takes its toll. Due to this, I leave edges raw now (they self-stop ravelling after a quarter inch or so, and I also gain overall the three or four inches I would have folded over). For attachment points, I use pebbles, rolled up pre-cordage bark, balled up dry grass, etc. gathered into the fabric and tied off. This allows complete customization choices. This is what suits my needs and may not meet others' needs. If we camped next to each other, the quality and time you've put in would clearly stand out. Beautiful work, and maybe one day you'll camp next to this old bum and show me up lol.
My friend Ron Nail, has a you tube series you can watch on dry scraping. Also has the whole process from skinning to fleshing to brain tanning,to smoking. I thought you might be interested in trying this method next time. Love your videos 💪💯👍
I get about a million hickory nuts on my property every fall. I had no idea this was even a thing. I know what I'm doing with my kids this fall now. Great video Anthony!
Good stuff, really love this kinda stuff, just curious if you have any idea what kinda velocity youre gettin from stuff like these and what grain weights are those round ball?
I do not. Based on shooting an almost round series of round balls in .50 out of a .54 yesterday I am guessing the velocities vary. I was not using a patch. A couple hit the dirt in front of the target by a few yards. 50 yards distance. Others hit the steel with a good twang. Some might have been me but I don’t quite think so.
Although not known to be historical, hickory syrup can be produced by processing shagbark and other hickory barks. There are a few modern producers who sell several flavors. It is quite tasty and adds a true hickory flavor to foods. Falling Bark Farm in Berryville, VA is my local source.
It was weird how quickly it became filling without much of a filler. I remember a documentary I saw one time from South America, where students were making some of the same dishes that South American indigenous people were making, but didn’t quite understand all the ingredients. The one thing they were missing was fat. The students were starving while thinking they were eating the exact same foods. That one missing ingredient was the difference between thriving and failing.
Thank you for another great, enlightening video. Again, you are inspiring us to get out and try what you are demonstrating. The foodways with first person accounts are interesting, please keep them coming. Looking very forward to your next video.
That was an amazing video my friend!! I can not wait to try this myself. I've had quite a few nut milks and I would love to add this to the list!! Thank you for sharing this gem with us, keep up the great content and glad to see you children enjoy they ways of old as well!!
Just like ( almond milk ) ...lol u can't milk anything without nipples but I guess some would be offended if u kept it real and called what it is ...nut juice...
If I was in that part of the United States, I would love to try that. I'm in Canada, and that doesn't grow in Alberta. This was a great episode. Cheers!
Im curious if you were planing on doing anything on 18th century first aid out on the frontier. How would a long hunter treat there aches pains and minor emergency.
