Best-selling guide to skills and crafts of frontier America. This book on the pastime of recreating the American frontier, known as buckskinning, continues the tradition of passing along accurate, practical information for the modern-day historian and reenactor. First-rate historical research and hands-on crafts include: Clothing of the Rocky Mountain Trapper, 1820-1840; Indian-Influenced Woodsmen of the Cane; Tools & Techniques of Bark Tanning; A Wardrobe for the Frontier Woman, 1780-1840; A Typical Day's Journey in Winter; Goods of the Trunk Maker & His Trade; Art & Writing on the Frontier; and Great Lakes & Eastern Woodlands Knife Sheaths. Includes a special color section featuring original art and artifacts plus reproductions. Each chapter was written by a knowledgeable participant in his field and is fully illustrated with photos and drawings.
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Best of Books of Buckskinning,
By Harry T. Parks` (Rockville, Va United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Book of Buckskinning VII (Paperback)
I've been doing Buckskinning, Historical Reenactment, and period trekking for going on twenty-six years... starting out with onlybooks and library references for garnering information, and although all of the previous books in this series from Scurlock Plublishing have much to offer, number VII is, in my opinion, the best to date! Aside from being well put together with great articles on Trekking (A Typical Day's Journey in Winter, by Fred Gowen), frontier art and writing, and tanning... the two articles that lead off the volume are well worth the purchase price alone! Ted Franklin Belue's article; Indian-Influenced Woodsmen of the Cane, and Clothing of the Rocky Mountain Trapper, 1820-1840 by Chronister and Landry are thorough, well-written and bring together research that has been here-to-fore scattered and difficult to run down. Should I have to recommend only one source book on clothing and accoutrements to a beginning Reenactor or Buckskinner(and I have) these two articles make Volume VII that one book! The article on Rocky Mountain Trapper Clothing brought me additional sattisfaction; through years of figuring out many things on my own while horseback, canoe and snowshoe trekking... hunting and trapping in the frontier manner... I had formed many common sense opinions on what worked and what didn't- what was probably worn\used and what wasn't.. without being able to validate many of them. Chronister & Landry's research cleared up many questions and reflects an enormous amount of hard work-- a salute to them!
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A must hane series!,
By Dan Almquist (Eau Claire, WI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Book of Buckskinning VII (Paperback)
I own all seven of the Buckskinning books and am waiting to get the eighth which has just come out. I suggest that anyone who is interested in or is involved in period re-enactments get a hold of these wonderful books. They are written by the people who are experts in the many fields and use the buckskinning skills and period information on a regular basis. They write from their personal experiences and also include the history that surrounds each subject. These books are a perfect guide to any person wanting to get into buckskinning re-enacting or the seasoned 'skinner.
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