Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West

Name: Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West
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ISBN: 9781602399693

ISBN-10: 1602399697

ISBN-13: 9781602399693

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Authors: Carl P. Russell

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This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and tools is also a lively history. The era of the mountain man is distinct in American history, and Russellâ€™s exhaustive coverage on the guns, traps, knives, axes, and other iron tools of this era, along with meticulous appendices, is astonishing. The result of thirty-five years of painstaking research, this is the definitive guide to the tools of the mountain men.

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/26/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




The Mountain Men in American History



Firearms of the Beaver Hunters



Beaver Traps and Trapping



Knives of the Frontiersmen



The Ax on America's Frontiers



Miscellaneous Iron Tools That Went into the West



Irons in the Fire



Historic Objects as Sources of History



John Jacob Astor's Inventory of Tools and Blacksmithing Equipment on the Columbia River, 1812-1813



Markings on Axes and Tomahawks



Representative Fur Returns, American Fur Company, Indiana, 1839-1841


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Index