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The hunter becomes the hunted...
This story was actually made into the film, The Naked Prey, starring and directed by Cornel Wilde. It's a fantastic film but they changed the location to Africa.

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9. Colter's Run (1810)

Colter and Potts trapped beaver
Secretly in Blackfoot Country
One morning they paddled up Jefferson’s Fork
Instead of finding their traps
They fell into one
Hundreds of Blackfoot awaited the thieves
Colter disembarked
But Potts panicked
And shot a Blackfoot
Colter saw his partner die,
So riddled with arrows
He looked like a pine cone
The Blackfoot stripped Colter naked
The chief made sport of the poacher
And ordered him to run for his life
Colter ran for miles
Over prickly pears
Needles skewered his feet
The strain gave him a bloody nose
But Colter kept running
Only one Blackfoot gained on him
The Blackfoot fell
And Colter pinned him to the ground
With his own spear
Colter heard the war cry
As he reached the river, dove in,
And swam like a beaver
Searching for wood
He found a timber raft
Hid under it
The Blackfoot stood on the raft above him
But the Blackfoot quit
Their sport and lost their game
Naked and starving
With no weapons to fight or hunt with
Colter walked for seven days
Until he reached a fort

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from Weird, Sordid, & Deadly But True Tales of America (1609 - 1906), released January 29, 2015

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Peter Ellis Los Angeles, California

When not suffering from moral turpitude, morbid fixations, and delusions of grandeur, I am taking my coffee very seriously.

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Ariel Pink's Pom Pom,
Luluc's Passerby, Real Estate's Atlas,
Stephen Malkmus' Wig Out at Jagbags, Pallbearer's Foundation of Burden,
Ty Segall's Manipulator,
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J Mascis' Tied to a Star ... more

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