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Mountainman Crafts and Skills A Fully Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Living and Survival

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ISBN-10: 1599213435

ISBN-13: 9781599213439

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: David Montgomery

List price: $16.95
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Filled with valuable information for hobbyists, survival enthusiasts, family campers - and everyone who enjoys outdoor life, Mountainman Crafts and 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, mountainman clothing, powder flasks and horns, tents, deer-horn jewelry, and much more. Wilderness survival skills are also covered, with instruction geared at both novice and expert. Learn how to trap wild game, tan hides, shoot with black powder, make a fire, and…    
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 4/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

The late David Montgomery was Farnam Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and the author of several books, including The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 .

Mountain Man Tools and Materials
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
Traps and Trappings
Types of Traps
Setting Your Traps
Trapping Muskrat
Trapping Beaver
Beaver Dam Set
Beaver Run Set
Beaver Lodge Set
Scent Set
Bank Hole Set
Buckskin and Fur Hide Tanning
Buckskin Tanning
Skinning Muskrat and Beaver
Fur Tanning
Making Rawhide
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 Moccasins
Wool Booties for Moccasins
Two-Piece Plains Moccasins
Buckskin Coat, Lewis-and-Clark Style
Capote (Blanket Coat)
Belts and Sashes
Beaver Mittens
Snowshoes
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
Mountain Man Hats
Simple Fur Cap with Ear Flaps
Coon-Skin Cap
Beaver Felt Hat
Other Types of Trappers Hats
Homemade Knife
Powder Flask and Horns
Leather Powder Flask
Powder Horns
Flintlock Primer Horn
Scrimshaw
Fur Trapping Area for Scrimshaw
Forts for Scrimshaw
Animals for Scrimshaw
Deer and Cow Horn Uses
Bone and Horn Use
Deer Horn Jewelry
Horn Powder Measure
Pouches
Possible Bag
Buckskin Strike-A-Lite Pouch
Buckskin Neck Pouch
Rawhide Bullet Pouch
Bullet Pouches
Parfleches
Rawhide Medicine Parfleche
Scabbards
Knife Scabbard
Blanket Scabbard
Leather Scabbard
Beadwork
Quillwork
Picking and Dyeing Porcupine Quills
Firemaking
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
Baker's Tent and Snow Cave
Willow Backrest Chair
Trade Box
Grub Box
Eating Utensils and Cookware
Steel Knife, Fork and Spoons
Eating Utensils
Cookware
Forging a Knife
Cow-Horn Spoon
Mountain Man Foods
Recipes
Edible Plants
Rendezvous Time
Rendezvous Today
Black Powder Shoots
Trading Session
Clubs
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
Glossary
Annotated Bibliography of Selected Books
Appendix