NEW updated Volume -Traditional Skills of the Mountain Man
A Fully Illustrated Guide to Wilderness
Living and Survival Skills
by David Montgomery
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Filled with valuable information for hobbyists, survival enthusiasts, family campers-and everyone who enjoys outdoor life, Mountainman Crafts & Skills is the essential illustrated guide to wilderness living and survival.
How to make your own clothing, shelter, and equipment are all covered in step-by-step detail-through illustrations by the author himself. Learn how to make and use hunting tools and utensils, wild game traps, mountain man clothing, powder flasks and horns, tents, deer-horn jewelry, and much more. Soft cover, 240 pages.
The Table of Contents includes the following:- Chapter 1
- The Work Area
- Tools and Equipment
- Suggested Work Area for Mountain Man Crafts
- Tanning Tools
- Clothing-Making Tools
- Tools for General Craft Work
- Traps
- Tools for Tanning Hides
- Chapter 2
- Types of Traps
- Setting Your Traps
- Trapping Muskrat
- Trapping Beaver
- Beaver Dam Set
- Beaver Run Set
- Beaver Lodge Set
- Scent Set
- Bank Hole Set
- Chapter 3 Buckskin and Fur Hide Tanning
- Buckskin Tanning
- Skinning Muskrat and Beaver
- Fur Tanning
- Making Rawhide
- Chapter 4 Making Mountain Man Clothing
- Buckskin Shirt
- Cotton or Muslin Shirts
- Mountain Man Pants
- Trapping Pants
- Buckskin Leggings
- Blanket Leggings
- Buckskin Dress
- Sioux Indian Dress
- Moccasins
- One-Piece Plains Moccasin
- Apache Style Moccasin
- Wool Booties for Moccasins
- Two-Piece Plains Moccasins
- Buckskin Coat, Lewis-and-Clark Style
- Capote (Blanket Coat)
- Belts and Sashes
- Beaver Mittens
- Snowshoes
- Chapter 5 Rifles, Knives and Throwing Ax
- Rifles
- Rifle Building
- Shooting Accessories
- Short Starts
- Wooden Short Start
- Horn-Handled Short Start
- Cleaning Your Rifle
- Black Powder Safety
- Mountain Man Shoot
- Shoots
- Knives
- The Throwing Ax
- Rifles, Knives and Hatchets
- Chapter 6 Mountain Man Hats
- Simple Fur Cap with Ear Flaps
- Coon-Skin Cap
- Beaver Felt Hat
- Other Types of Trappers Hats
- Chapter 7 Homemade Knives
- Chapter 8 Powder Flask and Horns
- Leather Powder Flask
- Powder Horns
- Flintlock Primer Horns
- Chapter 9 Scrimshaw
- Fur Trapping Area for Scrimshaw
- Forts for Scrimshaw
- Animals for Scrimshaw
- Chapter 10 Deer and Cow Horn Uses
- Bone and Horn Use
- Deer Horn Jewelry
- Horn Powder Measure
- Chapter 11 Pouches
- Possible Bag
- Buckskin Strike-A-Light Pouch
- Buckskin Neck Pouch
- Rawhide Bullet Pouch
- Bullet Pouches
- Chapter 12 Parfleches
- Rawhide Medicine Parfleche
- Chapter 13 Scabbards
- Knife Scabbard
- Blanket Scabbard
- Leather Scabbard
- Chapter 14 Beadwork
- Chapter 15 Quillwork
- Picking and Dyeing Porcupine Quills
- Chapter 16 Firemaking
- Chapter 17 The Tipi
- Tipi Construction
- Smoke Flap Pole Pocket
- Dewcloth Liner
- Ozan
- Stripping Poles
- Tipi Pole Racks
- Latrine
- Fire Pits for the Tipi
- Tripod for Cooking
- Metal Tipi Fire Pit
- Fire Pit Accessories
- The Tipi
- Chapter 18 Baker's Tent and Snow Cave
- Chapter 19 Willow Backrest Chair
- Chapter 20 Trade Box
- Chapter 21 Grub Box
- Chapter 22 Eating Utensils and Cookware
- Steel Knife, Fork and Spoons
- Eating Utensils
- Cookware
- Forging a Knife
- Cow-Horn Spoon
- Chapter 23 Mountain Man Foods
- Chapter 24 Rendezvous Time
- Rendezvous Today
- Black Powder Shoots
- Trading Sessions
- Clubs
- Chapter 25 Mountain Man Stories
- The Grandmas' Bear Hunt
- The Cougar Bear Hunt
- Herb The Great Beaver
- Jedediah Smith, Trapper and Explorer
- Hugh Glass, “Almost Bear Meat"
- James P. Beckworth, “Trapper and Chief of the Crows"
- Jim Bridger
- Chapter 26 Glossary
- Chapter 27 Annotated Bibliography of Selected Books
- Chapter 28 Appendix
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