Mountainman crafts and skills : a fully illustrated guide to wilderness living and survival / David Montgomery.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781599213439
- ISBN: 1599213435
- Physical Description: 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: 2nd ed.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: Bountiful, Utah : Horizon Pub., 1992. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1 Mountain Man Tools and Materials 13 -- 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 -- 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 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 -- 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 -- Edible Plants 213 -- 24 Rendezvous Time 214 -- Rendezvous Today 214 -- Black Powder Shoots 215 -- Trading Session 216 -- Clubs 216 -- 25 Mountain Man Stories 217 -- Grandmas' Bear Hunt 217 -- Cougar 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. |
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