Mountain Man Skills by Brennan, Stephen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents The Trappers By W. F. Wagner Transport

Bateau Keelboat Whaleboat Pirogue Flatboat Dugout Canoe Building a Birch-Bark Canoe Bull Boat

Building a Bull Boat

A Trapper’s Raft Horse and Mule Packing Crossing a River or Stream Travois Snowshoes An Indian Toboggan

Building an Indian Toboggan

Shelter

Forts and Trading Posts Stockade Building Lean-to, Tents, and Tepees Caches

Underground Caches

Splitting Logs Building a Trapper’s Log Cabin

The Cabin Roof Log Rolling

Building a Stone Chimney Sod House Construction Knots and Rope Work

Camp Cookery

Fire Building

Fuel Starting a Fire by the Bow Drill Method Flint and Steel as a Fire Starter The Lens Method

Brunswick Stew How to Make the Burgoo Roast Beaver Tail Beaver Tail Soup Lumberman’s Baked Beans How to Barbecue Venison or Sheep How to Cook Venison Sourdough’s Joy Doughgod How to Dry Corn Sweet Corn Parched Field Corn Ash Cakes Pone Pulled Firebread or Twist Johnny-cake Flapjacks Camp Corn Bread and Corn Dodgers Camp Biscuit Boiled Potatoes Roast Potatoes Bean Hole Pork and Beans Baked Beans Brown Bread Camp Soup Mountain Man Stew Fried Squirrel Venison Steak Jerking Meat How to Dress Small Animals Roast Porcupine Camp Coffee and Tea

Tea

Tools Of The Mountain Man

Knives A Trapper’s Ax

How to Fell a Tree with an Ax

Tomahawks and Hatchets Broadax and Adz and Other Tools Sawpits and Trestles

Firearms Of The Mountain Man

Swivel Guns Flintlock Rifles of the Mountain Man Trade Guns The “Plains” Rifle The Pistol Black Powder How to Make a Powder Horn

Hunting Big Game

The Bison or American Buffalo by Mayne Reid Mule Deer Hunting

Deer Hunting Tips

Big Horn Sheep Hunting the Big Horn Grizzly Bear

Old Pinto BY Allan Kelly

Trapping

Snares

The Common Snare The Ground Snare

Steel Traps of the Mountain Men

Notes on the Steel Trap Transportation of Steel Traps The Spring Pole

The Sliding Pole Fur-Bearing Animals

Beaver Mink Weasel Marten Otter Wolverine Muskrat Raccoon Badger Fox Bear

Skinning And Processing Of Pelts

Reading Trail And Tracks Trailing—Indian Sagacity by Randolph Marcy Finding Your Way—the Sun by Elmer Harry Kreps How to Use Your Watch as a Compass Tracks, for the Trapper Tracks, for the Hunter

Today’S Mountain Man Rendezvous

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