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Let me know when ya find some of that "cheap" gas.

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I posted the story about Lewis Wetzel awhile back , This next mountain man was the man that he looked up to . Or so they say .

Jesse Hughes .

http://www.muzzleblasts.com/archive...s/mbo52-3.shtml

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Here is some more reading for you smokepole men ,,,,I like em ,lol

http://www.blackpowderjournal.com/a...no2/index.shtml

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Here's a nice place to hangout ,bat the breeze and get your gun supplies .


http://www.logcabinshop.com/

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I guess I need to dig out another tale for you guys . See what I can find in a bit .

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I guess I need to dig out another tale for you guys . See what I can find in a bit .

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Here is an interesting story about a mountain man. I need to do some more research on him .


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Beckwourth

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Didn't find him as interestin' as the guy left for dead & made it to the town months later.

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OK ,Im easy to get along with ,lol , lets try this guy .


Whether this story is true or not I don't know , because in Calhoun County WVA is grave and monument to him .

Mike Fink

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-mikefink.html

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Very good Chuck and i am sure every word is true. My oldest son Andrew had his sister and best friend hold graghm crackers in their hand while he shot it in 1/2 with his pellet gun at a distance of 15 paces of a 7 year old. When Cheyenne age 3 and Drew age 3 came in to ask for another package. Ellen ask how they went through them so fast. Cheyenne said Andrew only lets us eat the 1/2 in our hand. Ellen asked what happened to the other 1/2? Andrew shot out of their hand it fell on the ground and that was the dogs share. Ellen was quite upset. I came home and asked to see all 3 with Ellen watching me intently, I said: Andy son, did you shoot either of these 2 or the dog? He said no. Did you use a gun that would kill a animal? He said Yes, my pellet gun. I then said did you miss at 7 paces of a seven year old? He said no I never missed. Then I asked Drew and Cheyenne if he missed and they said no never.

Then with Ellen's eyes bearing down on me like the july sun, I pronounced the verdict:

Don't shoot Graghm Crackers out of their hands ever again, That many Graghm Crackers might make the beagle sick to his tummy. Its not polite to waste food.

Honest truth, Jeff

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OK ,Im easy to get along with ,lol , lets try this guy .


Whether this story is true or not I don't know , because in Calhoun County WVA is grave and monument to him .

Mike Fink

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That was better.

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Jeremiah Johnson ,, Fact or fiction ?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver-Eating_Johnson

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The Crow Killer, very good read. It seems old Liver-Eating Johnson liked to cook biscuits and bragged about his cooking all the time. Well once he and 2 trapping partners got holed up at their cabin in a canyon by Indians.

Well old Liver- Eating had a back way out, so before they left he made a extra large batch of biscuits with stryknine in them and they escaped. Well the Indians stormed the cabin and found all the warm biscuits. Next time they were back that way they found about 30 dead Indians, seemed they liked his biscuits to much.

Old Liver eating was a pretty crude customer when it came to Indians he didn't like. Read the book.

Jeff A.

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Guess I'll go to the store and buy this book , been trying to find an E book library online to read some books rather than buying . Right now the only books I am buying are the leather bound Louis L'Amour books .



http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cro...n=9780253203120

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The Crow Killer, very good read. It seems old Liver-Eating Johnson liked to cook biscuits and bragged about his cooking all the time. Well once he and 2 trapping partners got holed up at their cabin in a canyon by Indians.

Well old Liver- Eating had a back way out, so before they left he made a extra large batch of biscuits with stryknine in them and they escaped. Well the Indians stormed the cabin and found all the warm biscuits. Next time they were back that way they found about 30 dead Indians, seemed they liked his biscuits to much.

Old Liver eating was a pretty crude customer when it came to Indians he didn't like. Read the book.

Jeff A.

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The wife just gave me this book 2 days ago ,, too wet and windy to set out on the deck and read it but the big easy chair is calling me ,,lol

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Found my book and I'll start on it later .



This isn't a tale of a mountainman but a time in history ,, The 7th Cavalry .

http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com...ter%20Rolls.htm

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Rendezvous ,,, Its party time !!

http://www.thefurtrapper.com/rendezvous_sites.htm#1829

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I have visited the rendezvous sites at Riverton and Daniel Wyoming. I can only imagine what these places looked like years ago when these events were being held.

These really were amazing men. Before the settlers, ranchers, homesteaders, and cowboys were populating the west the old beaver trappers were pushing further into the wilderness and exploring land that only the Indians had seen. These mountain men were the ones who opened up the west.

Great thread Chuck!

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Another colorful western trapper that had some interesting times was John Colter. If you guys haven't read about him check him out.

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Another colorful western trapper that had some interesting times was John Colter. If you guys haven't read about him check him out.

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Here is a link to look at stories of just about anyone who lived in that era .


http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-explorerindex.html

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You're talking of this man , right ?


http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-johncolter.html


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thank you chuck.

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