Mountain Man Crafts and Skills

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This useful book is filled with ideas and projects that are fun to make! The author, a professional artist, has drawn the instructions for the items and skills he is demonstrating, making a book that can be easily utilized by people of many ages and ability levels. There's valuable information here for hobbiests, Boy Scouts, survival enthusiasts, family campers--for anyone who enjoys outdoor life! This book is a must for everyone who loves outdoor life and for all those who ...
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Overview

This useful book is filled with ideas and projects that are fun to make! The author, a professional artist, has drawn the instructions for the items and skills he is demonstrating, making a book that can be easily utilized by people of many ages and ability levels. There's valuable information here for hobbiests, Boy Scouts, survival enthusiasts, family campers--for anyone who enjoys outdoor life! This book is a must for everyone who loves outdoor life and for all those who enjoy working with their hands.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780882907901
  • Publisher: Horizon Publishers & Distributors, Inc.
  • Publication date: 2/28/2006
  • Series: Outdoor
  • Pages: 239
  • Sales rank: 631,143
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.80 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

1 Mountain Man Tools and Materials 13
The Work Area 13
Tools and Equipment 13
Suggested Work Area for Mountain Man Crafts 14
Tanning Tools 16
Clothing-Making Tools 16
Tools for General Craft Work 16
Traps 17
Tools for Tanning Hides 18
2 Traps and Trappings 21
Types of Traps 22
Setting Your Traps 23
Trapping Muskrat 24
Trapping Beaver 26
Beaver Dam Set 28
Beaver Run Set 29
Beaver Lodge Set 29
Scent Set 30
Bank Hole Set 30
3 Buckskin and Fur Hide Tanning 31
Buckskin Tanning 32
Skinning Muskrat and Beaver 35
Fur Tanning 36
Making Rawhide 38
4 Making Mountain Man Clothing 41
Buckskin Shirt 43
Cotton or Muslin Shirts 45
Mountain Man Pants 47
Trapping Pants 50
Buckskin Leggings 51
Blanket Leggings 52
Buckskin Dress 53
Sioux Indian Dress 56
Moccasins 60
One-Piece Plains Moccasin 61
Apache Style Moccasins 62
Wool Booties for Moccasins 65
Two-Piece Plains Moccasins 66
Buckskin Coat, Lewis-and-Clark Style 67
Capote (Blanket Coat) 72
Belts and Sashes 77
Beaver Mittens 80
Snowshoes 83
5 Rifles, Knives and Throwing Ax 85
Rifles 85
Rifle Building 86
Shooting Accessories 90
Short Starts 91
Wooden Short Start 92
Horn-Handled Short Start 93
Cleaning Your Rifle 94
Black Powder Safety 94
Mountain Man Shoot 95
Shoots 96
Knives 99
The Throwing Ax 101
Rifles, Knives and Hatchets 102
6 Mountain Man Hats 103
Simple Fur Cap with Ear Flaps 105
Coon-Skin Cap 106
Beaver Felt Hat 107
Other Types of Trappers Hats 108
7 Homemade Knife 109
8 Powder Flask and Horns 111
Leather Powder Flask 111
Powder Horns 113
Flintlock Primer Horn 116
9 Scrimshaw 118
Fur Trapping Area for Scrimshaw 122
Forts for Scrimshaw 123
Animals for Scrimshaw 124
10 Deer and Cow Horn Uses 125
Bone and Horn Use 126
Deer Horn Jewelry 127
Horn Powder Measure 129
11 Pouches 131
Possible Bag 132
Buckskin Strike-A-Lite Pouch 134
Buckskin Neck Pouch 136
Rawhide Bullet Pouch 137
Bullet Pouches 138
12 Parfleches 139
Rawhide Medicine Parfleche 142
13 Scabbards 144
Knife Scabbard 145
Blanket Scabbard 149
Leather Scabbard 150
14 Beadwork 151
15 Quillwork 155
Picking and Dyeing Porcupine Quills 158
16 Firemaking 160
17 The Tipi 164
Tipi Construction 166
Smoke Flap Pole Pocket 169
Dewcloth Liner 170
Ozan 171
Stripping Poles 178
Tipi Pole Racks 179
Latrine 180
Fire Pits for the Tipi 181
Tripod for Cooking 183
Metal Tipi Fire Pit 184
Fire Pit Accessories 186
The Tipi 187
18 Baker's Tent and Snow Cave 188
19 Willow Backrest Chair 192
20 Trade Box 196
21 Grub Box 200
22 Eating Utensils and Cookware 204
Steel Knife, Fork and Spoons 205
Eating Utensils 206
Cookware 207
Forging a Knife 208
Cow-Horn Spoon 210
23 Mountain Man Foods 211
Recipes 212
Edible Plants 213
24 Rendezvous Time 214
Rendezvous Today 214
Black Powder Shoots 215
Trading Sessions 216
Clubs 216
25 Mountain Man Stories 217
The Grandmas' Bear Hunt 217
The Couger Bear Hunt 219
Herb The Great Beaver 220
Jedediah Smith, Trapper and Explorer 221
Hugh Glass, "Almost Bear Meat" 222
James P. Beckworth, "Trapper and Chief of the Crows 224
Jim Bridger 224
26 Glossary 226
27 Annotated Bibliography of Selected Books 231
28 Appendix 235
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