Steven Rinella
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Appearances Over Time
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We're talking about stories that kind of get passed down.
This is not a written down.
That's one thing that's difficult about Chapman.
Think about other stories from the time, right?
We're talking about like early 1800s.
Lewis and Clark kept journals, right?
There's many people from that time in history that write, and they write so, so much.
So we have so much to draw from.
Chapman could read, and Chapman could talk.
He was a proselytizer.
He could really preach.
There's all this documentation of people being interviewed after his passing, talking about what a great preacher and speaker he was.
But he did not write anything down.
He did not write anything down.
So we have no letters.
We have no journals.
We all have sources from around him.
But this one story is that Nathaniel fell ill.
Chapman went looking for help.
And supposedly Native Americans in the area, probably the Seneca, taught his little brother how to hunt.