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The four surviving journals of GeorgeHunter provide engaging accounts of travel in the Ohio and Mississippi Valley in 1796, 1802, and 1809, and include the most interesting record of the expedition to the Hot Springs of Arkansas in 1804-1805, complete with his detailed notes on natural history and meteorology.
Literate but not exactly literary, Hunter's terse observations on a region in the midst of almost sixty years of continuous warfare are effective at conveying a sense of the difficulty of travel, the excitement of the frontier, and the possibilities he felt that the future held for the west.
In many passages, Hunter hints at the sense of violence hanging over the region, whether epitomized by an Indian woman whose nose was cut off by her husband for infidelity or by an elderly alcoholic Indian left with only one wife after two others were murdered by family members.
Hunter was also assistant in surgical obstetrics at Tulane Charity Hospital and an instructor at Tulane University Medical School in 1952.
Hunter was also active in civic and social organizations: Mt. Sterling Blue Lodge 32, Mt. Horeb chapter arch masonry; St. Andrew's Parish; the Rotary Club; the Hillebrand Society; a director of the Waikiki Surf Club; the Oahu Country Club.
He was survived by his wife, Patricia Williams Hunter, medical writer with the Honolulu Advertiser; Robert Lyon Hunter of San Diego, California; Jamie GeorgeHunter of Maui and Lucy Lee Hunter of Melbourne, Australia, the children of his first marriage to Jean Sutherland from whom he was divorced in 1966.
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