Alice White
#13 The only breed of American raccoon hound recognized by the International Cynological Federation is the Black and Tan Coonhound (1975, Standard No. 300).
#14 Legend claims that the ancestors of the coonhounds were Foxhounds from England, which George Washington himself brought for the then popular fox hunt in 1770, and French hounds donated by the Marquis de Lafayette.
#15 However, there is evidence that the dogs, which became the progenitors of the American Coonhounds, appeared in the New World as early as the first half of the 18th century.
