Filled with valuable information for hobbyists, survival enthusiasts, family campers-and everyone who enjoys outdoor life, Mountainman Crafts & 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, 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