News

Hide Dress Laundry

Traditional Hide Dress

Hide Dress Laundry

We got an email from one of our visitors who lives in Florida, she was intrigued by the hide dresses of the Indian women and asked if by any chance they washed them, and if, then how? Our historian Jim Hardee helped us reply to her in telling us the Yucca root is just one [&helli...

Yum Beaver Tail!

Yum Beaver Tail!

A couple weeks ago, a visitor came in and asked another intriguing question. She was curious if the Mountain Men ate the meat of the beaver they caught. A common phrase most mountain men specialists, when asked this, say “If it was meat they’d eat it.” True they...

Mountain Man Profile

Mountain Man Profile

  Rufus B. Sage Rufus B. Sage was an American writer, journalist and later a mountain man. He is known as the author of Scenes in the Rocky Mountains published in 1846, depicting the life of fur trappers. Rufus B. Sage was born on March 17, 1817 to the family of Deacon Rufus...