Author Mark Neaves guides readers on an incredible tale through the life of one of America\'s greatest adventurers.
As a former slave, Confederate soldier, and professional hunting guide, Holt goes down as an American legend..
By the turn of the century, he\'d become such a legendary Hunter he was tapped to lead Teddy Roosevelt on a hunt that gave birth to the Teddy Bear.
When war erupted in the South, he remained loyal to the Confederacy, a teenager off to war.
The number sounds impossible, until considered in the context of a life that reads like the stuff of fiction.
Born into slavery in the Mississippi Delta in 1847, Holt Collier was taught to hunt at an early age, killing his first Bear at age 10, the first of 3,000 bears he killed during his lifetime, more than Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone combined.
Author Mark Neaves guides readers on an incredible tale through the life of one of America\'s greatest adventurers