Filled with valuable information for hobbyists, survival enthusiasts, family campers-and everyone who enjoys outdoor life, Traditional Skills of the Mountain Man is the essential illustrated guide to wilderness living and survival. Earlier printings were called Mountain Man Crafts and Skills.

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, mountain man clothing, powder flasks and horns, tents, deer-horn jewelry, and much more. Soft cover, 240 pages.

The Table of Contents includes the following:

• Chapter 1
• The Work Area
• Tools and Equipment
• Suggested Work Area for Mountain Man Crafts
• Tanning Tools
• Clothing-Making Tools
• Tools for General Craft Work
• Traps
• Tools for Tanning Hides
• Chapter 2
• Types of Traps
• Setting Your Traps
• Trapping Muskrat
• Trapping Beaver
• Beaver Dam Set
• Beaver Run Set
• Beaver Lodge Set
• Scent Set
• Bank Hole Set
• Chapter 3 Buckskin and Fur Hide Tanning
• Buckskin Tanning
• Skinning Muskrat and Beaver
• Fur Tanning
• Making Rawhide
• Chapter 4 Making Mountain Man Clothing
• Buckskin Shirt
• Cotton or Muslin Shirts
• Mountain Man Pants
• Trapping Pants
• Buckskin Leggings
• Blanket Leggings
• Buckskin Dress
• Sioux Indian Dress
• Moccasins
• One-Piece Plains Moccasin
• Apache Style Moccasin
• Wool Booties for Moccasins
• Two-Piece Plains Moccasins
• Buckskin Coat, Lewis-and-Clark Style
• Capote (Blanket Coat)
• Belts and Sashes
• Beaver Mittens
• Snowshoes
• Chapter 5 Rifles, Knives and Throwing Ax
• Rifles
• Rifle Building
• Shooting Accessories
• Short Starts
• Wooden Short Start
• Horn-Handled Short Start
• Cleaning Your Rifle
• Black Powder Safety
• Mountain Man Shoot
• Shoots
• Knives
• The Throwing Ax
• Rifles, Knives and Hatchets
• Chapter 6 Mountain Man Hats
• Simple Fur Cap with Ear Flaps
• Coon-Skin Cap
• Beaver Felt Hat
• Other Types of Trappers Hats
• Chapter 7 Homemade Knives
• Chapter 8 Powder Flask and Horns
• Leather Powder Flask
• Powder Horns
• Flintlock Primer Horns
• Chapter 9 Scrimshaw
• Fur Trapping Area for Scrimshaw
• Forts for Scrimshaw
• Animals for Scrimshaw
• Chapter 10 Deer and Cow Horn Uses
• Bone and Horn Use
• Deer Horn Jewelry
• Horn Powder Measure
• Chapter 11 Pouches
• Possible Bag
• Buckskin Strike-A-Light Pouch
• Buckskin Neck Pouch
• Rawhide Bullet Pouch
• Bullet Pouches
• Chapter 12 Parfleches
• Rawhide Medicine Parfleche
• Chapter 13 Scabbards
• Knife Scabbard
• Blanket Scabbard
• Leather Scabbard
• Chapter 14 Beadwork
• Chapter 15 Quillwork
• Picking and Dyeing Porcupine Quills
• Chapter 16 Firemaking
• Chapter 17 The Tipi
• Tipi Construction
• Smoke Flap Pole Pocket
• Dewcloth Liner
• Ozan
• Stripping Poles
• Tipi Pole Racks
• Latrine
• Fire Pits for the Tipi
• Tripod for Cooking
• Metal Tipi Fire Pit
• Fire Pit Accessories
• The Tipi
• Chapter 18 Baker's Tent and Snow Cave
• Chapter 19 Willow Backrest Chair
• Chapter 20 Trade Box
• Chapter 21 Grub Box
• Chapter 22 Eating Utensils and Cookware
• Steel Knife, Fork and Spoons
• Eating Utensils
• Cookware
• Forging a Knife
• Cow-Horn Spoon
• Chapter 23 Mountain Man Foods
• Recipes
• Edible Plants
• Chapter 24 Rendezvous Time
• Rendezvous Today
• Black Powder Shoots
• Trading Sessions
• Clubs
• Chapter 25 Mountain Man Stories
• The Grandmas' Bear Hunt
• The Cougar Bear Hunt
• Herb The Great Beaver
• Jedediah Smith, Trapper and Explorer
• Hugh Glass, “Almost Bear Meat"
• James P. Beckworth, “Trapper and Chief of the Crows"
• Jim Bridger
• Chapter 26 Glossary
• Chapter 27 Annotated Bibliography of Selected Books
• Chapter 28 Appendix