Customer Reviews

Mountainman Crafts & Skills

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If you want to make a buckskin hat or a horn gun powder flask then this book is for you..If you want to know how to USE a hatchet or how to build a lean to..This book is not for you....Has a good pemmican recipe though....I was expecting more historical refernces I guess....

I was somewhat disappointed in the book Mountainman Crafts and Skills,because I already knew most of the material that they covered. Although I think that the book would be great for someone just starting out learning these skills. It was a refresher course for me.

This book is full of information from fire-making to tanning hides to making coon skin hats. This would be a good book for camping to. This is exactly the book I've been looking for!

Mountainman Crafts and Skills: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Living and Survival

Excellent book for learning new skills and crafts.

A lot of information for the dabbler in outdoor skills. More than what you would think.

This is a worthwhile book only if you aren't very concerned about historical authenticity or the material culture of the fur trade period. If you want to make gear with greater historical authenticity you are better off studying the Book of Buckskinning series by Scurlock. The Scurlock series is based on evolving scholarship, and has improved with every volume as historical and material culture research has revealed more knowledge to students of that period in history.

Great detailed and very informative! Well worth the price and time of buying and reading. These pages could well save and protect persons, and is small enough yet to be packed with the peron in a pack (given you don't have a memory like a hard disc). Well worth the price!!!

This book is really great! I found it at the library and now I am going to buy it because it is so full of information I want to keep it handy.