FIREARMS, TRAPS AND TOOLS OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN - RUSSELL
A study of the tools accompanying the men who went West to trap beaver and in the process opened the area to settlement. Illustrated with over 400 drawings, 480 pages, paperbound.........$16.95 each
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MOUNTAIN MAN CRAFTS AND SKILLS - MONTGOMERY
This is a book for making things related to mountain men. Shows how to make and use tools, traps, clothing, knives, powder flasks, horn jewelry, parfleches, beadwork, quillwork, shelters, Has information on living habits and food, plus more. 240 pages, hardbound.........Out of Stock as of December 2004-a possible substitute would be Montgomery's other book, INDIAN CRAFTS AND SKILLS, which covers much of the same material...215 pages for $15.95
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THE BLACK POWDER PLAINSMAN - SMITH
A beginners guide to muzzleloading and reenactment on the Great Plains from Horizon Publishers. Has four chapters devoted to modern hunting with muzzleloading weapons. 174 pages, hardbound........$16.95 each
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THE HAWKEN RIFLE: IT'S PLACE IN HISTORY - HANSON
104 page paperbound book on most aspects of the hawken rifle from its production to use..........Out of Stock as of December 2004
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JOURNAL OF A MOUNTAIN MAN BY JAMES CLYMAN EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY LINDA M. HASSELSTROM
This journal records the deeds and thoughts of a heroic frontiersman who explored the west with Jedidiah Smith and traversed it again a generation later at the time of the first Morman migration and the Donner Party. 295 pages, illustrations, paperbound.......$9.95 each
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EDWARD WARREN - SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND STEWART
Originally published in 1854 this is a novelistic autobiography by Lord Stewart, a Scot who arrived on the Western Plains in 1833 to begin the first of three sojourns with trappers in the American West. Paperbound............$12.95 each
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THE RIVER OF THE WEST - THE ADVENTURES OF JOE MEEK, VOLUME 1: THE MOUNTAIN YEARS - VICTOR
The first of two volumes of The River of the West deals with Joe Meek's years as one the legendary mountain men, a fur trapper in the Rocky Mountains from 1829 - 1840. 282 pages, illustrations, paperbound........$9.95 each
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THE RIVER OF THE WEST - THE ADVENTURES OF JOE MEEK, VOLUME 2: THE OREGON YEARS - VICTOR
Having left his mountain years Joe Meek appears in Volume 2 as pioneer, Sheriff, U.S. Marshall, and legislator. Through his recollections, Meek's tale becomes an important history of Oregon's turbulent early years - the struggles of missionaries and early settlers with the Hudson's Bay Company and Indians that shaped a territory and finally a state. 392 pages, illustrations, paperbound.........$9.95 each
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PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF JAMES O. PATTIE - EDITED BY RICHARD BATMAN
Pattie's personal narrative, first published more than a century and a half ago, provides a unique look at life in the early Southwest and California from 1825 - 1830. His narrative is particularly useful for it's illumination of frontier attitudes towards Indians and Mexicans, and for it's descriptions of the hazards and hardships of frontier life of that era. 216 pages, illustrations, paperbound.............$12.95 each
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ETIENNE PROVOST: MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS - TYKAL
The story of Etienne Provost's life and adventures during the fur trade era. The events in his life represents a looking glass into the history of that era from trading with the Utes to Shoshone ambushes, attending rendezvous. 225 pages, paperbound............$9.95 each
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THE BOOK OF THE FREE TRAPPER - WALTERS
This is an informative book on the basics of the free trapper days with chapters on firearms, clothing, traps, Indian-trapper relations. 80 pages, paperbound.............$8.95 each
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THE LONG RIFLE - WHITE
A tale of young Andy Burnett, inheritor of Daniel Boone's own long rifle set in the early 19th century Rocky Mountain fur trade era. 375 pages, paperbound............$14.95 each
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SHININ TRAILS: A POSSIBLE BAG OF FUR TRADE TRIVIA - LEGG
This illustrated book is set in question-answer format with hundreds of questions on the fur trade era. Cross indexed, 106 pages, paperbound...........$7.95 each
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HAIR OF THE BEAR - CAMPFIRE YARNS AND SHORT STORIES - BY ERIC A. BYE
Surprise, deception, and exaggeration abound in their outlandish stories which recall the adventurous lifestyle of the Early American Frontier. 182 pages, paperbound...........$9.95 each
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BARONETS AND BUFFALO: tHE BRITISH SPORTSMAN IN THE AMERICAN WEST, 1833 - 1881 - MERRITT
A narrative history of the American West as seen through the eyes of British sportsmen who ventured beyond the Missouri during this time period. Provides a British perspective of that time period. 216 pages, paperbound..............$9.95 each