Author : Carl P. Russell
Release : 2010-05-26
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 291/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men by : Carl P. Russell
Download or read book Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men written by Carl P. Russell. This book was released on 2010-05-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and tools is also a lively history. The era of the mountain man is distinct in American history, and Russell’s exhaustive coverage on the guns, traps, knives, axes, and other iron tools of this era, along with meticulous appendices, is astonishing. The result of thirty-five years of painstaking research, this is the definitive guide to the tools of the mountain men.
