What does deerslayer mean?
Deerslayer means One who kills deer..
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One who kills deer..
He has been so often seen in pictures dressed like a deerslayer that many people feel sure that he is a dead shot in the class with Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and Buffalo Bill — yet he can not eat his soup until he puts on his glasses.
The Pennsylvania highlands not only provide the sport of American deer hunting with nostalgic myths, legends and famous tales of crafty old deerslayers, but set the historic background for one such deerslayer who remains a legend in his own time.
He’d enjoyed the rush of peering in a window at the deerslayers, but invariably they’d just been smoking like chimneys, drinking to excess, overeating, and acting like yahoos.
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Deerslayer means One who kills deer..
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He has been so often seen in pictures dressed like a deerslayer that many people feel sure that he is a dead shot in the class with Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and Buffalo Bill — yet he can not eat his soup until he puts on his glasses.
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