Be it observed also that the hard fighting, hard drinking, boastful hero of Nieblung fame used a "spur hund," just as his representative of Kentucky or Tennessee used a track hound a thousand years later.
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His name was John Stewart.
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His remaining absolutely alone in the wilderness for such a length of time is often spoken of with wonder; but here again Boon stands merely as the backwoods type, not as an exception.

To this day many hunters in the Rockies do the same.

In 1880, two men whom I knew wintered to the west of the Bighorns, 150 miles from any human beings.
They had salt and flour, however; but they were nine months without seeing a white face.