Mountainman Crafts and Skills: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Living and Survival
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Product Description
Filled with valuable information for hobbyists, survival enthusiasts, family campers - and everyone who enjoys outdoor life, Mountainman Crafts and Skills is the essential illustrated guide to wilderness living and survival. How to make your own clothing, shelter, and equipment are all covered in step-by-step detail - through illustrations by the author himself. Learn how to make and use hunting tools and utensils, wild game traps, mountainman clothing, powder flasks and horns, tents, deer-horn jewelry, and much more. Wilderness survival skills are also covered, with instruction geared at both novice and expert. Learn how to trap wild game, tan hides, shoot with black powder, make a fire, and cook a hearty meal with only the barest of essentials. Rich in mountainman historical lore, from descriptions of foods and living habits to campfire yarns, Mountainman Crafts and Skills is a must for everyone who loves the great outdoors. (6 X 9, 240 pages, illustrations, diagrams)
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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Lots of info for craftmakers but lacking historical info
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If you want to make a buckskin hat or a horn gun powder flask then this book is for you..If you want to know how to USE a hatchet or how to build a lean to..This book is not for you....Has a good pemmican recipe though....I was expecting more historical refernces I guess....
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Mountainman Crafts and Skills: A Fully Illustrated Guide...
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This is a worthwhile book only if you aren't very concerned about historical authenticity or the material culture of the fur trade period. If you want to make gear with greater historical authenticity you are better off studying the Book of Buckskinning series by Scurlock. The Scurlock series is based on evolving scholarship, and has improved with every volume as historical and material culture research has revealed more knowledge to students of that period in history.
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A Great Book
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This book is full of information from fire-making to tanning hides to making coon skin hats. This would be a good book for camping to. This is exactly the book I've been looking for!
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Great Book
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This book is really great! I found it at the library and now I am going to buy it because it is so full of information I want to keep it handy.
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