This guy is a national treasure. His channel is pure comfort.

@K1NGG1NO

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely been binging all of his stuff lately very informative and fascinating

@biohazard0482

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely!!!

@Nillowo

8 ай бұрын

You describe it perfectly, pure comfort

@Marqan

8 ай бұрын

As a representative of the rest of the world we reject the idea that he's simply a "national" treasure.

@sstills951

8 ай бұрын

He had his father on his channel saying that all they care about is channel views and money. I'll take me views elsewhere and so should you.

I've heard of a "hunter's stew" that would be eaten at these hunting camps. With men coming and going at all hours there was a need for hot and ready meals, so a pot would be kept boiling into which they would throw the meat from whatever they'd caught and any foraged food they'd found in a continuously evolving broth.

@hermitoldguy6312

8 ай бұрын

In England that's called "pottage", and has been the people's daily diet for a thousand years or more.

@guidoferri8683

8 ай бұрын

It's also called perpetual stew, and it was common in medieval Europe too

@DamianReloaded

8 ай бұрын

This would make a great topic for a video

@Spinosaurus44

8 ай бұрын

Damn that sounds good to me, except maybe if you’re unfortunate and end up at the camp at a time where they’ve just thrown some raw game into the stew, then you’d have to wait for it to cook all the way or you’d get diseases 😂

@tomthejongleur5752

8 ай бұрын

You're not gonna believe where most of these hunters were from.@@hermitoldguy6312

When I was a kid, (90s), I lived beside Wildcat Hollow Reserve. The wildlife officer had to walk around every deer hunting season to fight poachers. We had so many deer there, they would just take the horns and backstrap of a deer and leave the carcase for the coyotes. Which lead to another problem of overpopulation of coyotes. I'm just rambling, it's not connected to your video, I was just watching this and unlocked a childhood memory of walking and talking to the ranger in the woods, and had to share.😅

@athelonus

8 ай бұрын

Poachers are some of the worst in the world.

@pinkroses135

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing 😛

@PracticeNine

8 ай бұрын

Hearing that just makes me angry. Just such a waste. Of life, of meat and human DNA.

@chrismaverick9828

8 ай бұрын

In many areas Human activity is an integral part of the ecology. Conservation over the past century and a half has made some mistakes, but by and large most places in the USA and Canada are focused on preserving a healthy game/predator population. I can only speak for Ohio, but if we were to do as some demand and stop hunting entirely then several species would explode in population and then die out horribly due to disease and famine, not to mention the threats they would pose to humans in the meantime. It's taken time for places to start to understand and affect their local balance for the better and it is a benefit to have knowledgeable game wardens keeping people honest. There will always be poachers, and were it a crisis situation for food then the law can and should be lenient depending on case, but the unethical trophy hunter should always be made example of. There are always hungry people out there and most states have ways to donate the meat of a kill to the needy if one doesn't want it. There's no reason to leave an otherwise fine chunk of meat in the woods just so you can carry out your rack.

@holy3979

8 ай бұрын

​@@chrismaverick9828This sort of issue can be seen in American suburbs, where deer populations get out of control and most of those areas prohibit hunting and natural predators are driven out

This pulled back a memory of my late grandfather. He grew up poor small town in newfoundland. I remember a time when he bought back moose from hunt and would cook the tongue, the heart, the lungs (if not destroyed by the bullet). He would crack the bone and with a straw shoot the marrow onto toast, break the spine and eat the marrow from the disc's like ribs & boil the brain for head cheese. The man wasted nothing, we were all disgusted by this stuff. But he grew up with little. That was normal life for him. If he was alive today I'm sure he would be a 17th century reenactive and love it. Thank you for another awesome video ❤

@wombat5252

8 ай бұрын

Yuck head cheese. That and the eyeballs i just can't do but everything else I'd eat and get used to it.

@elliehill9165

8 ай бұрын

Respect May he rest in paradise ❤

@StompDeni42

8 ай бұрын

Hungarians too used to eat all those parts of the pigs. :) It's still a thing, an personally, I love it, but as this one became a McDonald's-infused nation as well, people grew disgusted of eating such things.

@mbern4530

8 ай бұрын

Not wasting anything is very common when hunting or just killing your own animal. My parents used to kill a pig every year when I was a child and the only thing that wasn't eaten was the bladder and gallbladder, literally everything else was eaten. In my dad's time they would even turn the bladder inside out and use it as a ball to play with when it dried. Brain is delicious, give it a shot if you ever get a chance.

@Lethgar_Smith

8 ай бұрын

My great grandmother, who was born in 1881, used to fry squirrels with the heads still on and then eat the brains and eyes.

I wrote an email to you guys about how much I enjoyed this series and you guys got back to me fast. The reply was extremely polite and made my day. Thank y’all so much

@bigmike-

8 ай бұрын

This is the most wholesome interaction I've ever read about on KZread

@andish9227

8 ай бұрын

@@bigmike- Haha positivity breeds positivity. Just saying when you like something that someone's created, it gives them a feeling of validity that's sort of been lost recently. Don't get me wrong, I love technology, but if you ever have the chance to say that you like someone's work, do it by any means necessary. Its easier to react in a knee-jerk way and be angry than take the time to say you like a youtube series or enjoy a piece of art or enjoyed an indie film etc

I had no idea we had bison east of the Mississippi! I just looked it up, and we had thousands of them here in Tennessee! You learn something new every day. Thanks, Townsends!!

@tildessmoo

8 ай бұрын

Yep, their range went clear to the Appalachians. Being best suited to the plains, there weren't ever as many that far east, but compared to how huge the herds could get out west, that's still a lot.

@Rokuke

8 ай бұрын

From what I understand the native tribes would do burns in the forest to kill underbrush and dried grass to encourage new grass to grow that would attract game like deer and buffalo to make hunting easier.

@ulfskinn1458

8 ай бұрын

Buffalo New York was named for the Buffalo that once dealt there. The original range of Buffalo stretched only a few hundred miles from the Atlantic.

@jennifersvitko5997

8 ай бұрын

Wood bison are taller and more "trim" than plains bison. They were all over the forests of the east. They were finally made extinct buy over hunting and illness around 1940.

@celticchrys

8 ай бұрын

We have places with "Buffalo" and "Elk" in the name across Appalachia, which reveals what we've lost from our environment. Several states are having some success reintroducing Elk herds in recent years, though!

Its interesting that Buffalo/Bison hides were not valuable during that period, when fast forwarding less than 100 years, and their hides were one of the most valuable. What people often don’t know, is the reason for this change; which was the beginning of the industrial age, with the large belt driven factory machines. These machines were all run off a large steam engine, which had shafts that ran through the factory, and belts from the shaft down to the machines. These belts were leather, and the best leather for machine belts was Bison leather, due to its thickness and strength; hence the huge demand for it in the middle of the 1800’s.

@paulcallicoat7597

8 ай бұрын

There are some water powered factories that survive to this day. In 1700 there were 70 water powered sawmills in New England.A hundred years later there were 250 and they all used leather belts on the equipment. Most of the mills used gears and axles to get power to the various saws and planers but short belts to each machine from those central axles. Those belts were made from Bison hide and they still work in some of the preserved mills kept by the National Parks Service as National Monuments.

@Waldenpunk

8 ай бұрын

Of course, bison were also systematically wiped out by the white man in order to deprive the Plains tribes of their main food source: kill the bison to kill the indigenous population.

@Winterascent

8 ай бұрын

Fire arm improvements probably made hunting them easier, along with the demand for hides.

@HennryHammerhead

8 ай бұрын

@@Winterascent Its less the improvement of the fire arms I think, a musket will work about as well as most modern day ones if you know what you're doing with them, and more so a better understanding of where to place your shots on the bison. Sure the newer guns give you more bullets and better velocity, but the idea behind it was to get good quality hide. Most hunters would usually only need 1 or 2 bullets for that.

@janetprice85

5 ай бұрын

Interesting to know. I knew deer hides were a big commodity in colonial times along with timber but not this about bison later.

I just wanted to say I immensely enjoy the thumbnails you use for this series.

@lachlanfarah5180

8 ай бұрын

Very strange

@joemaggs

8 ай бұрын

@@lachlanfarah5180💀

@keptleroymg6877

8 ай бұрын

​@lachlanfarah5180 what is strange

@lachlanfarah5180

8 ай бұрын

@@keptleroymg6877 That such a mediocre thumbnail would spark enough interest in someone to make a dedicated comment about it. Immensely enjoy ? Lol

@ey3z4ya

8 ай бұрын

​@@lachlanfarah5180it's even stranger in my opinion to question it. Some people find pleasure in simple things so what

Albion's greatest hunter, Charles Billinghurst who in early America went hunting for several years with Hal Antricon, Cook Ray, and Dudley Nathan Hale ( Nathan Hale's either Grandson or Great-Grandson). They provided meat and furs for fronter cities in Wyoming and Colorado. Billinghurst in his letters talks about what they ate. They ate nearly anything they could hunt and fish including skunk. They took with them rough flour, cornmeal, beans, dried peas, salt, some seasonings (and what they gathered wild), and etc. They also gathered from the wild such as berries, nuts, etc. Contrary to the belief those hunters only had horses and backpack which they had, they also had a team and wagons with supplies for the base camp.

@jerryodell1168

8 ай бұрын

Note: The Billinghurst letters were published years ago in muzzle loader magazine. They were from Charles to His Sister and contained a lot of details about their exploits in the West.

Longhunters tended to run in groups of 7-12 or so at a time, which seemed to be just the right number. The larger groups would have a camp with people who did nothing but process hides and do camp chores while the actual hunters would go harvest hides. The camps would have to move as the area would be hunted out and once they ran out of room on the packhorses they would have to come in and sell off the hides, get fresh supplies as needed, perhaps trade out worn down horses, and prepare to go back. Most would not go out in dead of winter, as the hunting was poor, it was too hard to get around, and the possibility of starving and/or freezing to death was too high.

@cringeavenger237

8 ай бұрын

Interesting information. Thank you for sharing.

@codeisawesome369

7 ай бұрын

Red Dead Redemption series ought to explore this life in a new game... the ingredients are all there.

I heard Buffalo hide was also used for "belts" to run the mills before we had rubber.

@Vikingwerk

8 ай бұрын

Yes, but that was later, say around 1840’s roughly.

@swesleyc7

3 ай бұрын

FYI Bison are in North America. Buffalo are in Africa. Common misnomer.

@nicholasmaximus3412

Ай бұрын

​@@swesleyc7also known as the American buffalo 🦬

About to have breakfast, just turned heat on for the first time this year, and a Townsends video pops up in my feed. Why yes, I do think I'll kick back and enjoy this immensely. Thank you!

@Joze1090

8 ай бұрын

You must be east of the Mississippi too :p

Every time I watch your food videos I'm reminded that I probably wouldn't have made it to 30, much less 70 as I am rapidly approaching. I had a 30 hours of History in university as my minor and after I discovered my corn allergy I would tell people, I would've been better off before the Americas were discovered. I'm also sensitive to nightshades and have completely given up hollow peppers, I also try to limit to a point the other ones, tomatoes and potatoes. Yeah, I also react to lots of old world foods, but it is the new world ones that try to kill me. In fact, I can point to a serious reaction to corn in 1984 that provoked most of the rest of them.

@jamesparker1071

8 ай бұрын

Dang. Hope you aren't vaxxed and boosted.

@diy5729

8 ай бұрын

It sounds like KETO and carnivore option for eating is the best choice for you. I do too also have issues like itching, inflammation, heart-burn when i eat vegetables and grains. Currently, im strictly on just meat, butter and lard. All the symptoms of itching/inflammation, hemorrhoids, and heartburn/upset stomach are gone. My legs no longer itchy and im also dropping the weight fast. Also, i removed oils from my diet and just use butter. Love it!!!

@ElicBehexan

8 ай бұрын

@@diy5729 but I'm allergic to meat too...

@Marlaina

7 ай бұрын

​@@ElicBehexanSounds like a water diet for you then

@ElicBehexan

7 ай бұрын

@@Marlaina I'm pretty good with "old world" foods...

The early voyagers, explorers and trappers, in North America, had a very rough existence. It wasn't easy. Now, we take our modern conveniences for granted. This was another great video. Cheers!

@scottw5315

8 ай бұрын

It wasn't easy but they were free men. Think of the serfs in Europe at the time. Bound to the land toiling their lives away for the Lord of the manor. By comparison, this was a huge step up for these men.

@DamianReloaded

8 ай бұрын

​@@scottw5315 Being free didn't always look that appealing when there was a high chance you might die at any hour of the day, every day (remember there was no hospital whatsoever to take you if you got injured. And no penicillin!!). Being outcast from society was one of the worst things that could happen to a person, besides a horrible death.

@scottw5315

8 ай бұрын

To each his own. Many chose this life to eking out a living on farms. I'm pretty sure that I would have done the same.@@DamianReloaded

@DamianReloaded

8 ай бұрын

@@scottw5315There is a high chance this life would have chosen you instead of the other way around. As you go back in time the less "free" people were, due to most options being reduced to the bare minimum of staying alive or dying. (freedom as we understand it today, from the comfort of our modern homes, embedded in a developed highly civilized society from birth)

As soon as he said "Daniel Boone" I immediately had the song from the old tv show stuck in my head.

@pinkroses135

8 ай бұрын

Me too

The revenant is a good movie that portrays these hunters perfectly along with all the dangers

I idolized Daniel Boone as a child. If you don't know there was a TV show back then about the adventures of Daniel Boone. It can be found on youtube. Anyway, on cross country flights from South Carolina to the western states I often stay in Neosho, Missouri at the Boone lick lodge. Evidently, Daniel Boone settled in that area. Back then, wild animals frequented natural salt "licks" as they were called. Hunters would stake out the licks for relatively easier hunting. The black bear can be dangerous as you mention, but not normally. However, the Grizzly bears that were encountered west of the Mississippi were extremely dangerous. Lewis and Clark talked about them quite often if i recall.

@toneddef

8 ай бұрын

I'm trying really hard to not get that theme song stuck in my head.

@OG_BiggusDickus

5 ай бұрын

If a black bear does attack you most frequently, it means to eat you, unlike grizzly bears, which often only attack you because you startle them. Sure they can kill you during the attack but usually it's not the desired outcome of the bear.

It's incredible the process of brain tanning a deer hide. It's a difficult, time consuming and at times, a pretty gross endeavor. After learning how to do it, it still absolutely blows my mind that our ancestors figured out the entire process hundreds of years ago.

@gingermcgingin4106

7 ай бұрын

Try thousands of years ago. Tanned animal hide was the first fashion trend

@Marlaina

7 ай бұрын

If our ancestors were as stupid as we think they were then the human species would have died off long ago

@janetprice85

5 ай бұрын

It's an ancient process using brains to cure hides. It is a wonder how so many things we take for grantrd like agriculture came to be.

Here in México we boil the toungue twice, first until you can peel the skin, then peel the skin, then rub some limes then clean it with water, then boil it again, then when it's done we chop it up and we fry it on a pan with lard or oil. You have to be carefull with those kinds of cuts like, tounge, guts, eyes, brains, etc, clean it very well and cook it for really long periods of time.

Townsends has finally unlocked the perfect title format for their videos. Congrats guys.

Bone marrow hs another positive aspect. It stays edible inside the bone for quite some time, even if the flesh outside starts to rot.

My grandfather raises bison today, retired at 65 and moved to the family farm and decided to build an entire bison farm on it by himself (contractors are expensive) I’ve tried cooking tongue a number of times, glad to find a good recipe! I’ve pressure cooked/sous vide it before but it’s still not that good, glad to know there is a simpler way to do it. Love your videos!

Tongue, tail, heart, and cheeks are the best part of a cow and you can't change my mind. They used to be super cheap, now they have sky rocketed in price. I don't think it's a demand issue, but more of a supply issue. I could be wrong, but anytime I see some for a decent price I'll buy several at a time.

I know somebody else said it but I also really enjoy the thumbnails, of course I love the series but the thumbnails are so simple and they really convey what you're demonstrating.

I love that you point out Native Americans are not a monolith. The incredible diversity is so often washed over in one chapter of a text book. One of the best channels on youtube and for wholesomeness gotta be top three (number one IMHO, but gotta leave space for others I may not know about).

One of the only channels where I instantly click the like button before the video even starts, because I know it's going to be that good. Love you guys, never stop making content like this.

Thank you for the video. It made me think of "The Revenant" and of Annie Proulx's novel "Barkskins." It is hard to think of the environmental damage that both logging and hunting have done to our landscapes while also admiring and sympathizing with those who suffered and died to do the work.

@mrmicro22

7 ай бұрын

Both industries were and are necessary. Modern hunting is necessary as it is how almost all conservation efforts are funded. If you care about the land, hunters are your allies.

@billymeyer99

7 ай бұрын

@@mrmicro22 I agree with you if you speak of now but in the previous centuries, both were focussed on almost industrial exploitation of what seemed like limitless resources. We have learned the hard way that our earth is finite. I hope we can agree

I never thought of this but the way you put all the little clips together showing examples of the hunters out in the wild must be a lot of effort.. great videos

Love these "poor x feast" videos. Keep up the good work👍.

Great job,excellent historical information. Yes here in Tennessee there still rural roads that are basically Buffalo paths. Yes they are paved now but some I remember some were gravel or even still dirt. Buffalo were the early version of bulldozer with forest,hills and mountains.

I seriously love your channel and elaborations of history and specifically the food and preparation. Really nice how you explain this. I learn a lot from it. Thank you very much for producing and uploading this.

We do know Daniel Boone rendered lots of bear fat into an oil for sale, since it was a hot commodity in the day and age. Skins where probably also useful to waterproof his hauls of processed hides, and they often turned black bear in “bear bacon”, similarly cured as bacon and used for camp provisions or sale as extra money/trade commodity.

I can imagine that a “hunter’s feast” for someone who grew up in civilization and living in the wilderness, would be their favorite comfort food from ‘home’ that was nearly impossible (or extremely difficult) for a working hunter to buy, cook or make. My first thought (well, I love it myself) would be fresh, homemade bread, some butter and good aged cheese (sounds great to me…just add a Diet Coke, and that’s a feast if I’m living off the land in the middle of nowhere…please never for me.) Enjoying the series! Thanks!

It's interesting to describe the tribes being at "war" with the longhunters when really they were just defending their hunting grounds that the hunters were trespassing in.

@doogz5199

8 ай бұрын

and lost yeah

@cringeavenger237

8 ай бұрын

War typically involves defending to some degree. Many wars in US history were started by us trespassing so not much new there guy idk what you want us to do about it.

It is possible that many of us will live this way again. Thank you for the presentation!

Somehow i feel i can relate at my very core to the struggles and gratitudes of early living. Simpler times.

Jon, you and what your team do is nothing short of amazing and very heartwarming. Thank you. 🎉👏👏

As always, this is such a fascinating presentation. THANK YOU.

Great vid, as always 💯💪🏻 Love these. Very inspirational and informative! Thank y’all for what you do

You’re channel is always enjoyable and informative! ❤

Another excellent video, your work is much appreciated.

Another spectacular video. Fun and informative. This may likely be the very best channel here on youtube. I honestly cannot think of a better one.

Yes I was thinking oil rig workers would be a similar job, but yes they are well fed at least…. Not an easy living back then, especially in winter. Interesting episode.

My dog passed away recently and whenever a wave of sad comes on I turn on this channel and it all goes away. Thank you all so much for this channel

Excellent video! Probably the best video on the "Long Hunters" that's ever been on KZread. Thanks!

Love your videos, so chill and informative.

This was so well done, I felt like I was there with them!!!! 😊

I love and adore this remarkable channel. Simply wonderful.

Being part French Canadian, I learned all about the coureur de bois (unlicensed fur traders). They also spent months at a time hunting or trading for furs with the Native Americans. But they often overwintered in the villages of the natives & sometimes formed family groups. They were among the lowest social class in New France, but now it is a point of pride if you can trace your descent from them!!

Love this series so much, fascinating stuff!

I really love this series of feasts. If someone asked me what a feast would look like for any of the groups featured in these videos, I would've been wrong on every one. It's really interesting to get to see how the lives these different groups of people lived would so greatly influence the kinds of food they would or could eat.

This is def one of my fav videos/subjects of yours. Thank you.

Love this series, insightful and easy to understand and digest, so to speak, bc they arent too long 🥰🥰

i could watch these videos for hours, they have such a relaxing and welcoming mood💚

Great video. I’d like to see more videos on Longhunters and more on cooking wild foods.

Bear fat rendered down was used a currency in some parts. Clay Newcomb of the Bear Grease podcast is very knowledgeable on the subject.

Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!!!

I have really enjoyed this series so far

What about if/when they got sick while out in the frontier? What kind of medicine and first aid supplies did they travel with? Excellent video!

I love these Poor fellows feasts. These foods are timeless. Thankyou.

This was an awesome video. Thank you

Fantastic. I wish I had more of my families history.

I’ve been loving this series!

Great video thanks for posting...

My grandfather introduced me to beef tongue (its purple) as a kid on the farm. It makes superb roast.

“The Revenant” has entered the chat…

This was awesome thank you for sharing!

Really loving the meals in camp videos.

I love the collaboration with Coalcracker Bushcraft and I Love Muzzleloading

It is very educational to watch these videos. Having said that, the industrial scale extermination of wildlife in those times was truly mind boggling. They must have seen nature as an endless source of animals.

Nice segment. This looked like a lot of effort

Great information on the old frontier.

Great group of hunters . Dedicated living history people

I love this guy's vid's, so informative!!!

Thanks for sharing with us Jon. You brought up many points that I had not heard mentioned before. Great presentation, Fred.

Love all your videos! I noticed the latest ones have hard cuts for the end. I’d love for the music outros to return; just gives the videos that fond farewell. Either way, the content is always superb. Thank you for all you do.

Incredible how your channel give the idea how each classes in 18th Century was to be. Every video about socio-status and the food based on their life is very good.

Perfectly timed because I'm starving. Going to go prowl in the supermarket.

Awesome video. very immersive

I really love this channel a lot, i hope one day they make a video about Gauchos or mountaineers.

Good to see Dan Wowack out with you

Great video dude, thank you!

I have a spice bush in my yard! It’s a weird thing, the flowers are beautiful and they smell strongly of slightly fermented apples.

The poor xyz feast has been my favourite series so far :3 but I really enjoy all of your videos

your channel is awesome bro i feel so warm (pause) watching ur vids rs... keep it up

Keep up the great work!

It really puts into perspective all the accounts I've seen and heard of how precious people's spice kits were to them.

impressive documentary!

That Buffalo tongue looked really good. I've heard bone marrow called meat butter. I need to try it one of these days. One of Daniel Boones favorite pieces of meat was Elk liver.

I LOVE THESE VIDEOS THANK YOU SO MUCH

I've heard that fresh bread was highly valued on the frontier, because the flour wouldn't last long and you couldn't get anymore any time soon.

My older brother always made a soup in winter that had fresh vegetables and any leftovers from the day added to it It was always filling and delicious. Helped living around the corner of a bakery for fresh bread to soak it all up. Only downside was if we added any pasta that would come out kinda mushy. I loved this soup. I even made this one week but should’ve added some more herbs. At that time I didn’t get the flavors quite right but it was always hot and filling.

Super Side note I just happen to notice the makers mark at 0:36 that the knife you have on the plate is a David White knife. I've not seen him in some time and know he wasn ot in great condition. Do you by chance know how he is doing if he is still around?

My family can yrace back to this continent to 1648. Lewis and clark expedition leading to the pacific northwest. I know they lived this, i love your content

Thank you for existing sir👏🏼👏🏼

I really like these series

My dad used to boil beef tongue, skin it, slice it and pan fry it in homemade barbecue sauce.

Always like watching your vids

It's a great day when Townsends uploads!!!!

I might not win but this would definitely get me well fed enough to try and fend off bears and mountain lions.