The mountain men
By: George Laycock ; drawings by Tom Beecham
Publisher: Outdoor Life Books; Distributed to the trade by Stackpole Books
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Danbury, CT; Harrisburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781556540349; 9780696110474
Subjects: Trapping; Frontier and pioneer life; Fur trade; Trappers; Fur traders; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: Wild lands and furbearers; title: Pursuit of the beaver: how the trapper caught beaver; title: The buffalo hunters; title: Mountain man's wildlife; title: Eyes West; title: To the mountains for beaver: the world of the mountain man; title: For love of the wild places; title: Birth of the rendezvous; title: King of the mountain men; title: The legend of Broken Hand: the mountain man's guns; title: Old Bill, master trapper; title: Trail blazer; title: A grizzly prolem; title: Some called him Thunderbolt; title: From apprentice to pathfinder; title: The happy mountain man: leatherwork; title: To the end of the West: fire and shelter; title: The marryin' kind; title: Journal of a trapper: trappers who fished; title: The bones of Old Black Harris; title: Trappers in the Southwest: the mountain man's cache; title: The old trapper and the kid: the mountain man's boats.; title: Cont.): Long shadows.