Автор: Stephen Brennan Название: Mountain Man Skills: Hunting, Trapping, Woodwork, and More Издательство: Skyhorse Publishing Год: 2015 ISBN: 978-1628737097 Язык: English Формат: epub Размер: 19,8 mb Страниц: 232 Whether you’re an avid outdoorsman or a novice hiker, Crafts and Skills of the Mountain Man is your handbook to not only surviving outdoors, but flourishing. The style of the mountain man is unique and popular, especially among young people, historians, and those with a special interest in living off the land. The mountain man has been successful outdoors for ages, and now you can too with the skills, tips, and tricks included in this handy manual.
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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
