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The Book of Buckskinning VII

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I've been doing Buckskinning, Historical Reenactment, and period trekking for going on twenty-six years... starting out with only
books 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!

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.

I bought this for a gift and he loved it. He said that it had a lot of information in it and he really liked it.