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The Deerskin Diary
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Добавлен 17 янв 2023
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.
What is Hickory Milk?
Nut milks are not a new phenomenon in American cuisine. For thousands of years Indigenous cultures in America gathered and processed hickory nuts as a food source. Several Europeans living and traveling among southeastern tribes described hickory milk and oil as part of their diet.
On this episode I describe hickory milk and recount how I make it. It's a very simple and very old dish that I encourage you to try.
Many thanks to D Wiggins for the music and to my daughter for making another cameo!
On this episode I describe hickory milk and recount how I make it. It's a very simple and very old dish that I encourage you to try.
Many thanks to D Wiggins for the music and to my daughter for making another cameo!
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Trekking With Kids
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.2 месяца назад
I took the boys on their first backpacking trip, and we did it with frontier clothing and equipment. In this video I walk you through what I was thinking, how it went, and what I would do differently next time. The most important part is that there will be a next time. Many thanks to Ty, William, Chris, Ken, and Sam who chaperoned this trip. Without their work and patience this would not have h...
What's In My Shot Pouch?
Просмотров 7 тыс.2 месяца назад
Shot pouches are a tough item to document thoroughly, let alone what people commonly carried in them. A lot is left to speculation and conjecture. In this episode I talk about mine, what is in it, and why I choose to be plain and simple. I explore a couple of quotes from period sources. As a note, the best I can nail down is that the John James Audubon quote would have happened sometime around ...
An Early American Squirt Gun: A Fascinating History
Просмотров 4,2 тыс.3 месяца назад
This fun summertime episode is all about something that I never knew existed in frontier history. Historical accounts of the siege at Boonesborough describe Daniel Boone's brother, Squire Boone, as producing makeshift squirt guns to fight the fires set by flaming arrows. Squirt guns had other uses also, so check them out in the episode. Music by D. Wiggins. I never get tired of listening to it....
An Historic Tent: How I Made It
Просмотров 3,1 тыс.4 месяца назад
Making a tarp shelter using hand sewing sailmaking techniques was a fun project that has provided a portable shelter for many years to come. The final tarp is 140” long x 116” wide. I have stitched over 114 feet of stitching total with approximately 4600 stitches total. Its total weight is 9.6 pounds. Forgive the lack of historical clothing in this one-I don’t have a set to use and the amount o...
Frontier Shelter
Просмотров 4,1 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Camping, hiking, and traveling were not unknown to our early American ancestors. Sheltering themselves from the wind, rain, and dew were dilemmas that were equally known to them. In this episode I look at some options used by some early travelers and long hunters. This is by no means exhaustive nor is it meant to be. I wanted to dive into what they used in the days before REI and Wal Mart tents...
Homemade Gunflints
Просмотров 10 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Gunflints were everywhere on the American frontier. They are seemingly as common as broken pipes, round balls, and broken glass on archeological sites. In this episode I take a look at a quote from Joseph Doddridge that discusses the use of broken arrowheads as common flints-but was it true? I took a look at some open source archeological reports and their findings to get a glimpse into whether...
Two Sizes of a Bullet
Просмотров 11 тыс.6 месяцев назад
How small is too small before accuracy disappears? In this video, I shoot three different sized bullets from a .54 caliber rifle to test overall accuracy potential. From a .54 caliber ball, to a .50 caliber ball, and down to a .44 caliber ball, I examine just how consistent smaller bullets may have been. Carrying a smaller sized bullet for your flintlock was a known method to speed up loading t...
Step-by-Step Tutorial: Crafting Seminole Moccasins
Просмотров 4,7 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Making authentic moccasins is a fun and relatively simple project. In this video I break down my process for making a pair of center seam Seminole style moccasins. Darry Wood wrote an article in the Bulletin of Primitive Technology (Spring 2000) where he chronicled his experience learning to make moccasins from Billy Bowlegs, a living relic of Seminole and southeastern native culture. I use Woo...
Brain Tanning a Deer Hide
Просмотров 12 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Brain tanning is a unique process that is thousands of years old. In this video I show you my process for tanning a deer hide with pig brains. Please forgive the lack quality on the audio. I had to film in my backyard and the level of overall noise pollution is maddening. I regret the sacrifice but I have to do it to get the video out. It is my hope that it will be of value to some folks who ar...
Frontier Backpacking Gear
Просмотров 11 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Have you ever wondered what I carry with me for an overnight camping trip? In this video I layout my planning considerations and my general equipment that I carry with me for a safe and authentic experience. Link to my video about Immersive Events: ruclips.net/video/GbgJwblMZOU/видео.html Please subscribe! Timeline: Intro: 00:00 Planning: 00:27 Clothing: 02:08 Footwear: 03:49 Weapon Considerati...
How to Make a Wingbone Turkey Call
Просмотров 2,6 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Making a wingbine turkey call is easy. There are only 4 basic steps: boiling/cleaning, cutting/fitting, and gluing. The best part is that you can make this call with things that you can get t the grocery store! This video is a little different than the norm-it is meant to be a fun, simple project that you can use to make a piece of history and learn a new skill! Wingbone turkey calls were not u...
Deer Backstrap and Johnny Cakes Over a Campfire
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Deer backstop and Johnny cakes (corn bread) cooked over a campfire were two trail foods that Daniel Boone reportedly ate as he trekked west in 1779. One of his fellow trekkers was Peter Houston, then 18 years old, who remembered and wrote about the trip and the life of ole D. Boone. In this video, I take the kids out for a little trek and replicate one of the meals. Deer meat and Johnny Cakes a...
The Battle of Kettle Creek: A Valentines Day Fight
Просмотров 2,7 тыс.9 месяцев назад
The Battle of Kettle Creek Georgia was a relatively obscure Valentine's Day fight between Patriot and Loyalist forces but it set the tone and showed British forces that the fight in the southern colonies may not be as easy as they had hoped. Join me as I explain how the battle unfolded and what is preserved today. This is a slightly different video from my normal topics but none the less worth ...
Mineral Licks and Salt
Просмотров 2,6 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Salt was a needed mineral for both people and animals. Whether you were on a short trek or a longer hunt, salt preserved meat and made food taste better. Salt licks formed when ancient salt deposits worked their way to the surface, drawing the animals and eventually the humans. Natives and Europeans alike not only hunted the animals there but also collected the water to boil down in their own s...
Frontier Escape and Evasion Tactics (Part 3)
Просмотров 3,2 тыс.11 месяцев назад
Frontier Escape and Evasion Tactics (Part 3)
Tracking Skills on the Frontier (Part 1)
Просмотров 2,7 тыс.11 месяцев назад
Tracking Skills on the Frontier (Part 1)
How I Added Depth to My Living History (5 ways)
Просмотров 4,4 тыс.Год назад
How I Added Depth to My Living History (5 ways)
Planning for Immersive History Journeys
Просмотров 6 тыс.Год назад
Planning for Immersive History Journeys
How to Start a Fire with Flint, Steel, and a Glass
Просмотров 2,6 тыс.Год назад
How to Start a Fire with Flint, Steel, and a Glass
We need the fur side on vids.
Camouflage for non gorilla warfare was rare when we attacked in waves.or groups it is hard to trace on a organization tyoe of scale..red coats with a white x was not a good choice lol
Amazing...idno if id dare bring a skin humting or creeping, tho 🤔
Love this channel
Using arrow heads I woukdnt even think would work or spark. But I guess if it'd flint. It's flint
Got my sub..I am in New England and have loved history.my whole.life ..gladni found your channel
"Green glass" could be volcanic glass (green obsidian) or a different kind of glass. There are some kinds of glass that are harder than others.
Fyi every animals brain is big enough to tan its hyde.
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Thank you sir. I have another two on the way! The world is just busy right now.
When You say 'The Eighteenth century;, you really mean the seventeen hundreds, not the eighteen hundreds!
That is correct!
The important thing about the flint is that the material it's made from is harder than the frizzen so it can shave off metal to make the spark. I do have a frizzen (made from an old file) that works very well with glass, most of my others, however, get results similar to yours. I suspect the final heat treatment left that particular frizzen a bit softer.
Thanks for sharing your experience with the frizzen! That leads to so many more questions.
It’s funny cause this should intuitively tell folks how backward the food pyramid is. Brains are made of lipids. We need healthy fats for the health of our brains.
Exactly. There is research coming out about cholesterol now that indicates some kinds are vital for long term brain health.
10:10 it took me a minute to get this little non joke but when I did I laughed out loud. 🤍
Haha I try and weave some humor in from time to time.
I got a flintlock but it didnt come with a flint. I found just a plain quartz rock and smashed it up with a rock and then use a pail, hammer and pliars on a goodish piece and it seems to work just fine. I do still want real flint but still, quartz works!
Awesome! Watch for uneven wear on your frizzen as time goes on.
@@thedeerskindiary Thanks, unfortunately another risk I didnt see was too short stones and fiddling with it caused the top jaw screw to whack the frizzen a few times, and belt the bolt. Now I have to replace it aaarg haha
Why not use the deer’s own brains Instead of purchasing pork brain separately? I’m curious
The saying is thT each animal has enbrains to tan its hide
That does appear to be true to a point but I would not use just one on larger and thicker hides.
Very interesting. Thanks
I am glad you enjoyed it!
Wow! I wondered if I could make my own flints from quartz, as I have a lot in my area In SE PA. I've often used it for making fire, but wasn't sure if it would hold up in my flint lock. This is encouraging! Ever consider making your own powder?
Making your own powder is definitely on the list one day. Just to see if I can.
Catching up on a few of your episodes … good stuff my friend.
Thank you my friend! As my creativity and mental space come back to normal I have another couple in the works. Looking forward to getting back after it again!
Thank you, the algorithm lord, for leading me to this wonderful channel.
I’m glad you found the channel!
Do you have a video on making the bacon, or could you make one? I looove your channel, by the way.
Thank you so much for the support. I don’t have one on making bacon though I have made it in the past. I’m not good enough yet to show how.
I've done a few hides with hair on and always pickle the hide. After I scrape the hair and grain off, do I need to pickle? Thanks!
Many people swear by the pickle process. I do not as I don’t think natives did and I try to stay true to the process.
How would you store it and how long will it keep?
I keep it in the fridge but not for more than a week.
Saving this one! Thanks
Awesome!
I love this so much.
Thank you
I love your hat.
The first one. I commented before I finished the video.
Thank you
Cool and interesting
I’m glad you like it!
what is hickory milk? not milk that is one thing for sure.
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
That’s a great suggestion. I will look into the idea for sure. Have a great time at your first event and thanks for stopping by!
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 😅
Very interesting 👍
Glad you think so!
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.
That is very touching. Thank you so much for sharing that. Hickory nut sofkee sounds delicious.
Thanks for sharing. I’m going to have to try this. 😀👍✝️
Hope you enjoy!
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.
Fascinating. It’s amazing how much of the world still uses the old ways. Thanks for sharing!
Nice video. Good historic insights.
Glad you enjoyed it
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.
Our campfire conversation is something to look forward to. Thanks for your experienced insight.
The best part of your videos is how your family gets involved.
It is for me. I hope they feel the same way.
Awesome videos, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us pilgrams
Glad you enjoyed and thanks for giving us a glance.
Man I like your jacket,or short 💯💪
Thank you!
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 want to try dry scraping one day. Maybe this year!
What an interesting and informative video and thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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!
Thank you. It’s worth the time to show the kids something they can eat in their own yard!
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.
what an interesting and informative video. I look forward to everyone you post, thank you .
Thank you so very much for the kind words.
just call anything milk or waht ever ya want now days.
Maybe but that was the term they used then also so it fits well in the historical context I think.
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.
I got some from Mt Vernon and it is delicious. It’s also expensive and I let the boys have some so I’m even broke-er lol.
Very interesting. Thats a lot of oil. I can see where it would pretty quickly cause a sasiation response.
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.
I appreciate the kind words and the next one is underway! I may be a little louder than this one though….
man i really want to try some hickory milk now
Me too
You won’t be disappointed I don’t believe.