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The Amazing Holt Collier: Mississippi’s Famous Hunting Guide

Holt Collier was born a slave in 1848 in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Over his lifetime, he served as a Confederate soldier, a Ninth Texas Calvary man, a cowboy, and was an extremely successful hunter and hunting guide.

A SOLDIER AND COWBOY

At the age of 14, Collier was given his freedom papers and then followed his former owner Howell Hinds to Memphis to join the Confederate Army where he first served as an orderly in a field hospital, then actively fought as a soldier, and served as a spy.

After his time serving alongside Hinds, Collier joined the Ninth Texas Calvary, riding with them until the end of the war. When the war ended, Collier worked as a cowboy on a Texas ranch for nearly a year.

AN EXPERT HUNTER

Collier was an expert marksman and outdoorsman. He spent much of his youth hunting small and big game to feed the field hands on the Hinds plantation, killing his first bear at the age of 10.

After the Civil War, Collier was self-employed, hunting game that he sold to feed those working to build th

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Holt Collier: His Life, His Roosevelt Hunts, and the Origin of the Teddy Bear - Hardcover

Holt Collier: His Life, His Roosevelt Hunts, and the Origin of the Teddy Bear

Minor Ferris Buchanan

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Condition: Very Good. 4. ** Flat-Signed by Minor Ferris Buchanan on the title page **; Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; 4th Edition; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.2 lbs; Brown dust jacket with illustration of man on horseback, and title in blue and yellow lettering; 2002, Centennial Press of Mississippi; 256 pages; "Holt Collier: His Life, His Roosevelt Hunts, and the Origin of the Teddy Bear,"

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Holt Collier

African-American bear hunter (c.1848–1936)

Holt Collier (c. 1848 – August 1, 1936) was a noted African-American bear hunter and sportsman. While leading a hunt for U.S. PresidentTeddy Roosevelt in November 1902, Collier unwittingly set the stage for the event that originated Roosevelt's nickname, "Teddy Bear."

Biography

Collier was born circa 1848 as a slave in Mississippi and was the third generation to be held as slaves by the Hinds family on Plum Ridge Plantation, built by GeneralThomas Hinds, who was a veteran of the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. At the request of General Andrew Jackson, Hinds had surveyed central Mississippi and chose the site for the state capital, Jackson, before settling nearby in the area which is now Hinds County.^[1]

Collier killed his first bear at the age of ten; after that, he was tasked to use his skills to supply meat for the table of the Hinds family and the dozens of other African American slaves.^[2] With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Collier’s master Howell Hinds left for the war