Mountain Man Skills

Mountain Man Skills
Author: Stephen Brennan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2015-07-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 162914049X

Crafts and Skills of the Mountain Man is a fascinating, practical guide to the skills that have made the mountain men famous worldwide as outdoorsmen and craftsmen. Readers can replicate outdoor living by trying a hand at making rafts and canoes, constructing tools, and living off the land. Learn key skills like: Building a strong fire. Learning to hunt and butcher your meals. Creating a safe and solid shelter. And much more! 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. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Traditional Skills of the Mountain Men

Traditional Skills of the Mountain Men
Author: David Montgomery
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-08-29
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1493035142

Filled with valuable information for hobbyists, survival enthusiasts, family campers - and everyone who enjoys outdoor life, Traditional Skills of the Mountain Men 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.

Mountainman Crafts & Skills

Mountainman Crafts & Skills
Author: David Montgomery
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1461749387

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.

Scouting

Scouting
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1995-05
Genre:
ISBN:

Published by the Boy Scouts of America for all BSA registered adult volunteers and professionals, Scouting magazine offers editorial content that is a mixture of information, instruction, and inspiration, designed to strengthen readers' abilities to better perform their leadership roles in Scouting and also to assist them as parents in strengthening families.

Shifty's War

Shifty's War
Author: Marcus Brotherton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0425247376

From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers. Look for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix! As a boy, Darrell “Shifty” Powers’s goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be. His father trained him to listen to the woods, to “see” without his eyes. Little did Shifty know his finely-tuned skills would one day save his life—and the lives of his fellow paratroopers. As one of the original men who trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, Shifty was one out of only two soldiers in Easy Company to initially earn the coveted expert marksman designation. He parachuted into France on D-day and fought for a month in Normandy; eighty days in Holland; thirty-nine in the harshly cold winter of Bastogne; and for nearly thirty more near Haguenau, France, and the Ruhr pocket in Germany. Shifty’s War is a tale of heroism and adventure, of a soldier’s blood-filled days fighting his way fromthe shores of France to the heartland of Germany, and the epic story of how one man’s skills as a sharpshooter and engagingly unassuming personality propelled him to a life greater than he could have ever imagined.

Daily Life on the Nineteenth Century American Frontier

Daily Life on the Nineteenth Century American Frontier
Author: Mary Ellen Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1998-11-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1573566640

The nineteenth century American frontier comes alive for students and interested readers in this unique exploration of westward expansion. This study examines the daily lives of ordinary men and women who flooded into the Trans-Mississippi West in search of land, fortune, a fresh start, and a new identity. Their daily life was rarely easy. If they were to survive, they had to adapt to the land and modify every aspect of their lives, from housing to transportation, from education to defense, from food gathering and preparation to the establishment of rudimentary laws and social structures. They also had to adapt to the Native Americans already on the land—whether through acculturation, warfare, or coexistence. Jones provides insight into the experiences that affected the daily lives of the diverse people who inhabited the American frontier: the Native Americans, trappers, explorers, ranchers, homesteaders, soldiers and townspeople. This fascinating book gives a sense of the extraordinary ordinariness of surviving, prospering, failing, and dying in a new land; and explores how these westering Americans inevitably displaced those already bound to the land by tradition, culture, and religion. A wealth of illustrations complement the text of this easy-to use reference.

The Never-Ending Lives of Liver-Eating Johnson

The Never-Ending Lives of Liver-Eating Johnson
Author: D. J. Herda
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1493038265

From Farmer and Sailor to Mountain Man, Crow Killer, and Town Sheriff, One man’s reputation lives past all others When it came to western mountain men, no one on earth ever matched the physical prowess or will to survive of John “Liver-Eating” Johnson. Throughout his life, John Johnston was known by several names, including “Crow Killer” and “Liver-Eating Johnson” (without the “t”), names he earned through his penchant for killing Crow Indians before cutting out and eating their livers. Born around 1824 in New Jersey, Johnston headed west after deserting from the U.S. Navy and became a well-known and infamous mountain man. His many lives would involve him working as a miner, hunter, trapper, bootlegger, woodcutter, and army scout. When his Flathead Indian wife and child were killed by Crow Indians while he was away hunting and trapping, he swore to avenge their deaths and began his next life as a man after revenge . He killed hundreds and earned his nickname because he was said to cut out and eat his victims’ livers. Twenty-five years after his wife’s death, his life would take another turn when he joined the Union Army in Missouri. And that was just the start of his second act.

Pride of the Mountain Man

Pride of the Mountain Man
Author: William W. Johnstone
Publisher: Zebra Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780821760574

A seemingly easy job turns into a deadly battle when Smoke Jensen arrives in a town under siege by the ruthless "Bloody Bill" Anderson and his gang of sadistic killers, but the outlaws are no match for Smoke's twin Colts.

Visions of the American West

Visions of the American West
Author: Gerald F. Kreyche
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2021-11-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813187559

Countless studies of the American West have been written from the viewpoint of history, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. But the West has seldom been written about with the reflective pen of a philosopher. Offering more than a fresh retelling, in thoroughly human terms, of the major historical events of the nineteenth-century West, Gerald Kreyche also leads the reader in a search for the spirit of the West itself. That spirit was one with the American Dream, which offered freedom, individualism, and self-sufficiency to those strong enough and gutsy enough to heed the call of Manifest Destiny. Although the West was and is the most American part of America itself, its natural wonders, its spacious grandeur, its myths and mystique have captured the hearts and imaginations of people the world over. We have all experienced the quickened pulse at the mention of things indelibly western—tumbleweed, mountain men, high plains, cowboys and Indians, sod houses, coyotes, and grizzlies. And who doesn't react to such bigger-than-life figures as Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill, George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse? The personal humdrum of our times rapidly disappears when, through the magic of western films, TV shows, and books, we vicariously lose ourselves and then find ourselves in the American West of a bygone time. The West, then, produced a quasi-separate culture. And, as each culture must, it gave birth to its own ethos, its own special character, its own tone and set of guiding beliefs. Kreyche contends that in the process of "westering," the veneer of the sophisticated easterner was sloughed off, leaving in sharp outline the frontiersman and the pioneer. In their own manner, these men and women produced a new species of homo americanus.

Kingdom Of Pawns: An Alec Caldwell Novel

Kingdom Of Pawns: An Alec Caldwell Novel
Author: George Feild
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2011-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146536319X

Kingdom of Pawns takes Alec Caldwell into Florida’s Everglades in search of a former CIA colleague who, on a covert mission to locate a small group of terrorists reportedly hiding there, has gone missing. Caldwell finds his colleague, close to death, but the suspected terrorists escape. Evidence left in their hurried departure suggests that they may have been developing a Saran gas bomb, classified by the U.N. as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. Are these terrorists planning to target large numbers of innocent citizens in a nationwide jihad, designed to break the will of the people to resist their imposition of Shariah law in the U.S.? Or, is their goal to strike the initial blow in the U.S. for a worldwide jihad designed to eliminate most of the leaders of the free world and throw their economies into chaos as their radical Islamic movement engulfs everything in its path? And, who is behind this suspected jihad? Can Caldwell stop this radical cleric from carrying out his evil plan? Or, will the free world, as we know it today, cease to exist?