Mountainman Crafts & Skills: A Fully Illustrated Guide To Wilderness Living And Survival

by David R. Montgomery

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.

Genres: Survival, Outdoors, Nonfiction, Reference

240 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1981

Reviews

[Marian · Rating 4 out of 5]

More of a beaver hunting and trapping manual, weaponry etc., I guess I was romanticizing this subject because of family members in the Mountain men reenactment model well written and illustrated with line drawings, I am just not interested. I did enjoy the small crafty bits, like leather crafting and scrimshaw.

[David Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mountain Man Crafts and Skills: A Full Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Living and Survival by David Montgomery (Lyons Press 2008)(796.5). This is a book on how to tan hides and make clothes out of buckskin. It includes information on trapping and weaponry. My rating: 6/10, finished 2009.

[Don Gubler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent reading and reference.

[Little Timmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I so wanted to be a mountain man growing up. Living on a farm in the smoky mountains with my grandpa, I got to try alot of what this book illustrates. Great book for campers, highly recommended

[Oma Eagle · Rating 4 out of 5]

my 1980 edition