Free Admission to the public !!!
Rifle, Smoothbore, Longbow, Hawk Knife competitions with prizes totaling $25,000.00
Located on a beautiful 20 acres site on the mountain, overlooking the City of Pikeville. A $35 per person/$40 per family camp fee includes all competitions, wood, water and much more!
APPLICATION FOR CAMPSITE, COMPETITION FEES, CRAFTERS, MERCHANTS
Due no later than 5:00 p.m. Friday, August 9th, 2024.
Late applications will be accepted at an increased fee of $50 until 5:00 p.m. Friday, August 16th.
For questions or additional information please reach out to Charlie Chalk:
606-216-8002 fgtradingpostdays@gmail.com
www.fgtradingpostdays.com
Biography of Charles Chalk
Began in muzzleloading firearms in 1972. Joined the National Muzzleloading Rifle Association the same year. Builder of guns, Living History participant and Living Historian Began in Rendezvous participation in ,1983 in Florida. Have since them attended over 50 events in 10 states. Booshway for the Original Northeastern in 2000 with attendance of nearly 700. Membership in the American Mountain Men, and the National Muzzleloading Rifle Association. Current President of Boone’s Trace Muzzleloaders, Jackson KY
Charlie Chalk is Pike County Historical Societys “Living History Consultant” and he is the “Booshway” for the Long Hunters Rendezvous on Bear Mountain.
TO OUR FELLOW LONGHUNTERS
Pikeville, Kentucky is the city whose bicentennial you are helping celebrate. It was officially formed in December 1824 on a spot of land called Peach Orchard Bottom.
That name was common long before the place was settled, leading to a strong suspicion that the orchard was planted by Native Americans in order to have a seasonal food supply along what was one of their major paths.
Pikeville’s first settlers had been here since at least 1796. Once renegade bands led by Benge and Doublehead were eliminated along Pine Mountain, homesteaders from Virginia increased— and so did hunters like the Harmans and Skaggs. Buffalo, bear, and deer were the first to be hunted to extinction, or nearly so. Many of the prize bear skins reportedly were shipped to France and turned into headwear for Napoleon’s soldiers. Daniel Boone passed by Peach Orchard Bottom on his first visit to Kentucky and spent the winter of 1767-68 some 30 miles downriver at a salt lick. That was where he saw his first buffalo. Dozens of store accounts were paid with animal skins.
Ginseng soon replaced hides as the main income supplement to farmers’ lifestyles, but its heyday was short lived. The 1837 arrival of the first steamboat to Pikeville signaled the end of the hunter-digger-farmer lifestyle. Faster and more reliable transport got the roots and few remaining pelts to market faster, but that only depleted the supply.
By 1840, the cutoff year for our Rendezvous, Pikeville was well on its way to merging into nineteenth century life.