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ScavengeologyAuthor: jhbryan
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Episode 7: The "Venturesome" Virginian - Part 1
Episode 9
Tuesday, 7 January, 2020
This is part 1 of the true story of Joseph Swope, the "venturesome" Virginia longhunter and frontiersman, which in an Allan Eckert (ish) style, tells his story of first entering the 1750s Greenbrier Valley frontier of Virginia, and tells the harrowing true story of what happened. Joseph Swope was an 18th century frontiersman of German descendent, who led a real life adventure, and it happened in places which are still there today, and which still look about the same. Check it out! Check out the written version of the story posted to our blog at Scavengeology.com. The link to this particular post is at https://scavengeology.com/the-venturesome-virginia-frontiersman-part-1/ where you can see photos of the actual sites discussed in the story, and also a lot, lot more......
