The Missouri Project
Promoting Missouri History
Promoting Missouri Artist
The centerpiece of this project is the display of the
original sketch “Missouri Travelers”
by Kyle Carroll.
816.449.5452
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including contact information.
Additional artist will be featured in this living blog in the future. HERE.
Panel 1:
In an earlier time, in areas of the East
including Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, there was a phenomena involving
groups of men who would go out on expeditions beginning in late fall, not
coming back home to their families until early spring. On these extended
expeditions, they hunted and trapped for both fur and food, and traveled long distances.
They have since been labeled “longhunters”. This collective group of
“rough and brambled” men explored and charted much of the ever expanding
American frontier for future settlement.
The era lasted a
relatively short period of time. This way of life which began in the mid 1700’s
with people like the Harmon brothers, John Findley, Elisha Walden and the
Boones, generally coming to an end by 1780 when the eastern frontier states of
Virginia and Kentucky became settled. However, in men like John Coulter,
who served as a scout for the Lewis & Clark expedition, that spirit of
adventure drove exploration of the uncharted West well into the early 1800s.
Panel 2:
Some of these men, such as Daniel Boone. Elisha
Walden, John Hughes, and others, did not accept the routine “genteel” life
with its ever increasing taxation and government regulations, as found in
established settlements in Kentucky and other Eastern states. They chose to
migrate and live out their old age in the more unsettled and unconfined Spanish
Missouri Territory which is now the State of Missouri.
Daniel Boone moved from Kentucky and settled in
the Spanish Missouri Territory in 1799, west of the Mississippi River,
near present day Defiance, Missouri. Elisha Wallen and John Hughes came to
Missouri in 1806, and settled near present Ironton, Missouri. John
Coulter, when done exploring, settled near New Haven, Missouri circa 1810.
In 1817, at
eighty-four years of age, Boone went on what would become his last extended
hunt to the cold, blustery Missouri prairie. It is written that Boone's’ son
Nathan, later said: “ Father was exhilarated to be camping out
Panel 3:
again. He had brought his gun, his kettle, a
light axe, provisions and two or three traps. He seemed to feel himself in his
ancient element. After the evening meal, he told stories of his olden- time
adventures”.
The era of the longhunter was ending...”
The “Missouri Hunters” display is a collection of
a hunter’s tools and equipment which were commonplace on the Spanish Missouri
frontier circa 1815-1820. If men such as Boone, Wallen, Hughes, or
Coulter were allowed by their Creator to come back to the area where they lived
out their lives, before going to the eternal hunting ground beyond, and revisit
their “ancient element” by going on one last extended hunt, these are the tool
a pair of hunters might want to find waiting for them in their station camp.
This display is also a tribute to the Missouri
artists who are keeping this epic tradition and love of adventure alive. Much
of that same spirit of these past hunters is present in their art.
Bark-tan bag, horn and knife set by Matthew Fennewald
573.787.2005
Longrifle in .40 cal forged iron furniture with walnut
stock, built by Larry Callahan and Paul Bigham (Missouri native now living in
Illinois Territory)
Larry Callahan
636.475.7444
Paul Bigham
618.473.2021
Antler handled belt knife by Chris Gau
314.267.9735
Forged axe by Doug Warren
816.682.7963
Primitive bowl by Jeff Bottiger
Forged belt axe with steel bit by Andy Hawkins
573.253.3245
Antler handled belt and neck knives by Glen Mock
660.382.5862
Longrifle in .45 cal with forged iron furniture in maple stock by Chuck Edwards
573.421.5098
Brain-tan hunting coat by Mathew Fennewald
573.787.2005
Brain-tan Hunting Bag by Eric Van Alstine
573.721.8961
Powder Horn with “squirrel hide repair” and scrimshaw by
Harris Maupin
636.586.8977
Scrimshawed Blowing Horn by Jeff Bottiger
573.578.5076
Matthew Fennewald and Alex Foreman Display
Mr. Carroll, I liked your display photos. Would you tell me what the item is in photo 7. It looks like a tap holder in an old machine shop.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jan, for posting....you did a far better job than I in presenting the display. Thanks for your and Art's continuing support of all contemporary longrifle culture artist.....
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I tried to post this earlier, and can't see that it made it. What is the device in photo 7 that looks like a tap holder in an old machine shop? The display looks great!
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