12/20/2025
History you missed: some hunting dogs didn’t hunt deer—they hunted you.
In the early 1900s, Kentucky’s Captain Volney “V.G.” Mullikan and his bloodhounds ran down more than 2,500 escaped criminals across the Southeast. Crowds showed up just to watch them work. One chase stretched 50 miles. Built like walking noses—dragging ears, heavy jowls, zero quit—these dogs started on game and ended up rewriting the rules of manhunts.
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