Traditional skills of the mountain men : a fully illustrated guide to wilderness living and survival
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Traditional Skills Of The Mountain Men; Contents; 1. 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; 2. 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; 3. Buckskin and Fur Hide Tanning; Buckskin Tanning; Skinning Muskrat and Beaver; Fur Tanning; Making Rawhide; 4. Making Mountain Man Clothing; Buckskin Shirt

Cotton or Muslin ShirtsMountain 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; 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 Hatchets6. Mountain Man Hats; Simple Fur Cap with Ear Flaps; Coon-Skin Cap; Beaver Felt Hat; Other Types of Trappers Hats; 7. Homemade Knife; 8. Powder Flask and Horns; Leather Powder Flask; Powder Horns; Flintlock Primer Horn; 9. Scrimshaw; Fur Trapping Area for Scrimshaw; Forts for Scrimshaw; Animals for Scrimshaw; 10. Deer and Cow Horn Uses; Bone and Horn Use; Deer Horn Jewelry; Horn Powder Measure; 11. Pouches; Possible Bag; Buckskin Strike-A-Lite Pouch; Buckskin Neck Pouch; Rawhide Bullet Pouch; Bullet Pouches; 12. Parfleches; Rawhide Medicine Parfleche; 13. Scabbards

Knife ScabbardBlanket Scabbard; Leather Scabbard; 14. Beadwork; 15. Quillwork; Picking and Dyeing Porcupine Quills; 16. Firemaking; 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; 18. Baker's Tent and Snow Cave; 19. Willow Backrest Chair; 20. Trade Box; 21. Grub Box; 22. Eating Utensils and Cookware; Steel Knife, Fork and Spoons; Eating Utensils; Cookware; Forging a Knife; Cow-Horn Spoon; 23. Mountain Man Foods; Recipes

Edible Plants24. Rendezvous Time; Rendezvous Today; Black Powder Shoots; Trading Session; Clubs; 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; 26. Glossary; 27. Annotated Bibliography of Selected Books; 28. Appendix; Index