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  2. List of big-game hunters - Wikipedia

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    Considered by many to be one of the greatest mountain hunters, St. George Littledale (December 8, 1851–April 16, 1931) and his wife Theresa, conducted three great expeditions across central Asia, where they collected different species for animals and plants for the British Natural History Museum and the Liverpool Museum. Littledale has hunted ...

  3. Big-game hunting - Wikipedia

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    The Duke of Algeciras with a trophy African leopard, one of the 'Big Five', Southern Rhodesia, 1926. Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game animals for trophies, taxidermy, meat, and commercially valuable animal by-products (such as horns, antlers, tusks, bones, fur, body fat, or special organs).

  4. Longhunter - Wikipedia

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    As colonial settlement approached the eastern base of the Appalachian Mountains in the early 18th century, game in the Piedmont region became more scarce. Merchants returning from trade missions to Overhill Cherokee villages in the Tennessee Valley brought back news of the abundance of game west of the range and began taking hunters along on their trade expeditions.

  5. Mountain man - Wikipedia

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    A mountain man is an explorer who lives in the wilderness and makes his living from hunting and trapping.Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through to the 1880s (with a peak population in the early 1840s).

  6. Frederick Selous - Wikipedia

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    Early in his hunting career, in the mid-1870s, Selous favored a four bore black powder muzzleloader for killing an elephant, a 6 kg (13 lb) short-barreled musket firing a 110 g (1 ⁄ 4 lb) bullet with as much as 20 drachms (35 g; 550 gr) of black powder, one of the largest hunting calibers fabricated. Between 1874 and 1876 he killed seventy ...

  7. History of archery - Wikipedia

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    Longbowmen archers of the Middle Ages.. Archery, or the use of bow and arrows, was probably developed in Africa by the later Middle Stone Age (approx. 70,000 years ago). It is documented as part of warfare and hunting from the classical period (where it figures in the mythologies of many cultures) [1] until the end of the 19th century, when bow and arrows was made functionally obsolete by the ...

  8. 8 of the greatest manhunts in history - AOL

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    5. James Earl Ray. On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr. during a speech at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tenn., forever changing history.

  9. List of bounty hunters - Wikipedia

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    Burton is considered one of the most successful bounty hunters in the U.S., having captured over 3,500 criminals. He also operates the country's only bounty hunting school, located in West Palm Beach. Robert (Bob) Burton passed away peacefully on September 22, 2016 in Santa Barbara. [2] [3] [4] Duane "Dog" Chapman: 1953– 1979–