The Mountain Men Book by Laycock-Hawken Muzzleloader Flintlock Muzzleloading-NEW

Description: THE MOUNTAIN MEN THE DRAMATIC HISTORY AND LORE OF THE FIRST FRONTIERSMEN 2ND EDITION by George Laycock **** Weaves historical facts with profiles of individual trappers, including harrowing escapes, feats of supreme courage and endurance, and sometimes violent encounters with grizzly bears and Indians. Contains special sections on firearms, traps, clothing, and equipment. A MUST-HAVE for your muzzleloading, Rendezvous, or Old West library! "George Laycock has gone to great details to portray the life of Western mountain men, and has done an outstanding job."---Backwoodsman Magazine The mountain man, weathered and wind-bitten, searched out the beaver, sent his packs of furs back to market, and in the process proved himself to be the ultimate outdoorsman. He was a survival specialist in the face of bitterly cold winters, antagonistic Indians, and unbelievably powerful bears. He was unsurpassed as a marksman and skilled as horseman and naturalist. Typically the free trapper was young when he went to the mountains. He was single, poor, farm- reared, and he had long hair, but kept his face shaved, except perhaps for a mustache. He was sinewy, powerful, and possessed of lightning reactions. He was the finest woodsman the country has ever seen, surpassing even the Indian in mastery of the outdoors. To know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung mountain men who, like the legendary Jeremiah Johnson, were real buckskin heroes. Preceded only by Lewis and Clark, beaver fur trappers roamed the river valleys and mountain ranges of the West, surviving on fish and game, fighting, or trading with the Native Americans---forever heading toward the untamed wilderness.In this story of rough, heroic men and their worlds, George Laycock weaves historical facts with profiles of individual trappers and their stories of everyday life, harrowing escapes, feats of supreme courage and endurance, and sometimes violent encounters with grizzly bears and Native Americans. Special sections discuss the equipment they crafted or relied upon, including their muzzle loading rifles, traps, shooting bags, percussion cap holders, leatherwork, boats, fishing gear, and more. These beaver trappers pushed back the wilderness frontier. They were explorers who led America into new regions deep in the Rocky Mountains and beyond. Our curiosity about the nature of the mountain men, and how they lived, is as sharp today as ever. EXCERPT: "The bear clamped his open mouth over the trapper's head and sank its teeth in deep enough to prevent any hope of escape. One tooth punched through beneath Marie's right jaw, another through his right eye. As the bear swam for shore, towing his catch by the head, Marie's partner came running and shot the beast through its head while missing Marie. 'I saw him six days afterward,' said James, 'with a swelling on his head an inch thick, and his food and drink gushed through the opening under his jaw made by the teeth of his terrible enemy.'"---from the book Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Preface Chapter 1: Wild Lands and Furbearers Chapter 2: Pursuit of the Beaver How the Trapper Caught Beaver Chapter 3: The Buffalo Hunters Chapter 4: Mountain Man's Wildlife Chapter 5: Eyes West Chapter 6: To the Mountains for Beaver The World of the Mountain Man Chapter 7: For Love of the Wild Places Chapter 8: Birth of the Rendezvous Chapter 9: King of the Mountain Men Chapter 10: The Legend of Broken Hand The Mountain Man's Guns Chapter 11: Old Bill, Master Trapper Chapter 12: Trail Blazer Chapter 13: A Grizzly Problem Chapter 14: Some Called Him Thunderbolt Chapter 15: From Apprentice to Pathfinder Chapter 16: The Happy Mountain Man Leatherwork Chapter 17: To the End of the West Fire and Shelter Chapter 18: The Marryin' Kind Chapter 19: Journal of a Trapper Trappers Who Fished Chapter 20: The Bones of the Old Black Harris Chapter 21: Trappers in the Southwest The Mountain Man's Cache Chapter 22: The Old Trapper and the Kid The Mountain Man's Boats Chapter 23: Long Shadows Bibliography Index Softcover. 2nd edition. Unabridged edition. 6x9. 256 pages. Line drawings. BRAND NEW! PLEASE NOTE: PHOTO IN THIS AUCTION IS A STOCK PHOTO OF THE BOOK. YOUR BOOK IS BRAND NEW FROM THE PUBLISHER, NEVER READ, NEVER SHELVED. We ship all of our books in cardboard packaging/wrapping for protection in transit.

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