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Mr. 16 gauge,
Good question about bags. The Eastern Longhunters that I read about going to Kentucky travelled light on foot with maybe a pack horse. Most carried a bullet board-a wooden holder of 6 or 8 patched roundball on a thong around their neck. They carried a powder horn, and in some cases also had a small priming horn. The possibles bag held the spare flints, tools etc. I will now do more reading on my favorite era, the French & Indian War, on the Pennsylvania frontier.
The later era of Mountain Men were generally mounted on horses and may have had both types of bags that the horse carried along with the Longhunter.
Adam
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Adam Helmer
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