Firearms, traps & tools of the mountain men
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
contributor: Fleming, Guy
contributor: Rossi, Paul
creator: Russell, Carl Parcher, 1894-1967
issued: 2022-05-03
issued: 1967
description: "Bibliography: PP.427-448. The sub-title of the dust-jacket is a guide in picture & text to the equipment of the trappers and fur traders who opened the Old West from the 1820S to the 1840s. The coverage of the subject is much wider than the sub-title indicates, ranging from Indian traps to 20th century knives. Although intended primarily for students of the American West, this scholarly and immensely thorough guide to the artifacts of the trader and early explorer is a valuable handbook."-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 257.
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extent: xviii, 448, viii pages : illustrations, tables ; 24.5 cm
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note: m Firearms, Traps, & Tools O F T H E Mountain Men Carl R Russell AGUIDEINPICTURI &TEXT to the equipment of the trappers and fur traders who opened the Old West from the 1820's to the 1840's m $12.50 Firearms, Traps, 8c Tools OF TH E Mountain Men In the growing popular and scholarly literature on the fur trade and the mountain men, Carl P. Russell's book is unique. The product of thirty years' research, it treats an aspect of the old- time trapper-trader's life that has received very little attention from historians—the materiel of the the mountain men. Mr. Russell begins his book by giving his reader a brief background in western fur-trade history (early 1800's to the mid-1840*1) and then discusses the weapons, tools, and procedures with which these remarkable frontiersmen virtually developed a unique material culture in overcoming the obstacles of an untracked wilderness. Rifles, shotguns, hatchets, axes, knives, steel traps, and miscellaneous iron tools are portrayed and discussed by the hundreds in this fascinating book. Firearms, Trajps, &■ Tools of the Mountain Men contains more than four hundred drawings that reveal the often crude but effective paraphernalia and forgotten processes in the early fur-trade commerce and in the mountain men's daily adventurous lives. The author has not only researched the journals, diaries, and letters of the trappers themselves, as well as the business records, inventories, and invoices of such famous fur- trading outfits as Ashley and Henry; Smith, Jackson and Sublette; and John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company; he has also tracked down the records and catalogues of the gunsmiths, ironmongers, and other manufacturers (continued on back flap) Jacket design, binding and typography by Guy Fleming Jacket illustration from a painting by Paul Rossi in the collection of Dean Krakel. ILLUSTRATED WITH MOKE THAN 40O DRAWINGS II/67 ALSO BY CARL P. RUSSELL Guns on the Early Frontiers r FIREARMS, TRAPS, & TOOLS O F T H E MOUNTAIN MEN r FI…
note: Includes an index Includes bibliographic references Other copies : http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1086739835
has type: Books
identifier: T21.5.W4 R87 1967
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0413305
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. T21.5.W4 R87 1967
subject: Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
subject: Trapping--Equipment and supplies
subject: Fur trade
type: Text