~ ~ ~ When I arrived at the encampment at Pricketts Fort on Friday morning, there was still a bit of snow on the ground, and large flakes were falling. Earlier the ground had been white, but by now only the hills above Pricketts Creek, where they emerged above the mist, were still mantled in [...]
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School of the Longhunter: scenes from the encampment
Posted in "Hair-buyer" Hamilton, American Revolution, Battle of Pt Pleasant, Bill Rundorff, Charlie Brown, Chateaubriand, Chief Logan, Desert Fathers, Doug Wood, Elisha Waldern, Enkiddu, Epic of Gilgamesh, George Rogers Clark, Henry Knox, Henry Skaggs, John the Baptist, Joseph Hollingshead, longhunters, Lord Byron, Lord Dunmore's War, Mad Anne Bailey, Mark Baker, Mark Hersee, Michael Seidelman, Nathan Kobuck, Natural Man, Noble Savage, re-enacting, Rousseau, School of the Longhunter, Shawnee, Simon Girty, Sumerians, Suzanne Dennis, Tacitus, Tecumseh, Ted Franklin Belue, William Baker, William Carr on April 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The Shawnee: their septs, their chiefs & their women
Posted in Black Hoof, Chalagawtha sept, Doug Wood, John Boback, Kispokotha sept, Maykujay sept, Peckuwe sept, Shawnee, Tenskwatawa, Thawegila sept, William Penn on February 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As part of an effort to employ this blog, not only a source of news about current events at Pricketts Fort, but also as a resource of information about the early history of the lower Monongahela valley, and of the Virginia frontier generally, I will be posting a series of excerpts from John M. Boback’s [...]
Daniel Boone & the boatload of ginseng: further considerations
Posted in Daniel Boone, Doug Wood, ginseng, Nathan Boone, Robert Morgan on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This past winter I posted an article here in the Fortblog about Daniel Boone transporting a load of ginseng from Kentucky to Philadelphia sometime in 1787 or ’88, what the route of that journey may have been, and whether or not it brought the Boone party near Pricketts Fort, as one account claims. My conclusion [...]
The ghost of Ostenaco spotted at Pricketts Fort…
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Cherokee, Doug Wood, Mary Rose Mustachio, Ostenaco, Shawnee on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Participants in the 2009 Woodland Indian Camp at Pricketts Fort were witness to a rare event on Wednesday evening, July 1: the appearance of one of the most widely renowned and honored of Cherokee chiefs, the mid-eighteenth century orator and warrior Ostenaco (portrayed by historian and re-enactor Doug Wood). During the early 1760s, Ostenaco moved [...]
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