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Meshach Browning -LRB- 1781 , Damascus , Montgomery County , Maryland - 19 November 1859 , Garrett County , Maryland -RRB- was an early backwoodsman , hunter and explorer of the watersheds of the North Branch Potomac and Youghiogheny Rivers .. Damascus. Damascus. backwoodsman. Woodland. hunter. hunter. explorer. explorer. North Branch Potomac. Potomac River#North Branch Potomac River. Maryland. Maryland. His memoir is Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter -LRB- 1859 -RRB- .. He has been celebrated as Maryland 's most famous frontier hunter .. hunter. hunter. Maryland. Maryland. Browning 's memoir of his `` hunting-fever '' years -LRB- 1795 -- 1839 -RRB- and other activities was originally penned with a turkey quill .. turkey. wild turkey. Half backwoods history , half heroic adventure story , it recounts his hunting expeditions and life-threatening encounters while stalking game and records details of life in early frontier America , western Maryland folkways and early settlement life .. Maryland. Maryland. backwoods. Woodland