bushwhacker

The splendor of the landscape — craggy cliffs, endless skies, picturesque vistas — is more like a “Westworld” hellscape when it’s littered with cutthroat soldiers, depraved bushwhackers and desperate, homicidal land seekers.

He was a familiar figure along the Appalachian Trail and other paths, a wiry 5-foot-7 bushwhacker wearing his trademark mesh angler’s vest and toting a snake sack and a pole called a snake hook.

It is still dreaming of the Civil War and reliving memories of bushwhackers, moonshiners, Indian fights, big hunts, and other boisterous incidents of the frontier days.

Pinpricks of red light appeared like beady mouse eyes in the woods, evidence of bushwhackers braving the poison ivy for a closer look.

Soon, Fins became known for ice cream sandwich bushwhackers, Caribbean atmosphere and live bands.