Museum of the Mountain Man Tin Cup with Name.
Tin cup is silver with a handle and a sticker that reads the name of the museum and its location. Embossing on the sticker is in black writing.
Measurements:
4 3/4″ – Diameter including the handle.
3 1/2″ – Diameter without the handle.
3 1/8″ – Tall
Museum of the Mountain Man Ornament. Engraved wood showing the logo of the museum.
Made in the USA!
Measurements:
3 3/4″ x 3 3/4″
Hanger Measurements:
4″ from the top of the ornament.
Logo Meaning:
The circular Beaver Plew represents the treasure that attracted the mountain men to the wilderness. After skinning the beaver, the pelt was stretched on a willow frame to cure prior to shipping.
The trap was the mountain man’s principal tool. He generally carried 6 of them weighing 5-6 ponds each.
The emigrant grave marker and the spur represent some of the same forces that eventually spelled the end of the fur trade era — the beginning of the westward migration and the coming of the ranchers that eventually tamed the wilderness.
The arrow symbolizes the close connection between the native tribes of the Rocky Mountains and the mountain men — both as allies and enemies.
The mountain man’s rifle was used for hunting game as well as for protection. Flintlock and percussion style were used with Henry or Hawken rifles being common.
Museum of the Mountain Man Yo-Yo. Hours of fun for any age.
It comes with the Museum of the Man logo and wording stamped on the front of the yo-yo.
There are five colors to choose from. Blue, Green, Natural Wood, Red, and Yellow. All stamping is done in black ink.
Logo Meaning:
The circular Beaver Plew represents the treasure that attracted the mountain men to the wilderness. After skinning the beaver, the pelt was stretched on a willow frame to cure prior to shipping.
The trap was the mountain man’s principal tool. He generally carried 6 of them weighing 5-6 ponds each.
The emigrant grave marker and the spur represent some of the same forces that eventually spelled the end of the fur trade era — the beginning of the westward migration and the coming of the ranchers that eventually tamed the wilderness.
The arrow symbolizes the close connection between the native tribes of the Rocky Mountains and the mountain men — both as allies and enemies.
The mountain man’s rifle was used for hunting game as well as for protection. Flintlock and percussion style were used with Henry or Hawken rifles being common.
Measurements:
2″ x 2″ x 1 1/2″
Narrative of a Journey – Across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River
The Narrative chronicles a journey of discovery by the first trained naturalist to cross the American continent. As a member of Captain Nathaniel Wyeth’s 1834 expedition to the Oregon country, John Kirk Townsend journeyed west through a “rich and unexplored region” that offered science an “almost inexhaustible field” for study. Townsend’s account of his travels is an engaging, personal record of the first transcontinental trek along the route that would soon become the Oregon Trail.
ISBN: 0-87071-525-9
290 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Oregon State University Press, 1999
National Parks – Coloring Book
Congress established Yellowstone, The nation’s first national park, in 1872. Today there are 51 national parks with the United States, encompassing an extraordinary diversity of terrain, animal life and vegetation. From the dry deserts of Big Bend National Park in Texas to the icy wilderness of Gates of the Artic National Park in Alaska, the wonderful natural heritage of America’s national parks is your to color and enjoy in the exciting new coloring book. Among the other parks featured are Grand Canyon, Everglades, Great Smoky Mountains, Mammoth Cave, Petrified Forest and many more.
ISBN: 978-0-486-27832-2
64 Pages
Softback
8 1/4″ x 10 7/8″
Dover Publications, 1993
Native Harvests – American Indian Wild Foods and Recipes
This wonderful book is not just a recipe collection, but a passport to foraging and to surviving close to nature. It will tell you how to prepare familiar foods such as stuffed clams and corn chowder, but also how to fix clover soup, purslane salad, young milkweed spears, wild rice with hazelnuts and blueberries, fiddlehead stew, meadow mushroom pie, stewed wild rabbit with dumplings, spoon bread, acorn coffee, and witch hazel tea. Beautifully illustrated by the author (herself of American Indian descent), Native Harvests is also an invaluable manual on herbal medicines and ceremonial, sacred, and poisonous plants — all written with acute sensitivity to and appreciation of Native American ways.
ISBN – 978-0-486-44063-7
239 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
Dover Publications, 1977
Naya Nuki – Shoshoni Girl Who Ran
Naya Nuki was only eleven when she was taken captive by a rival Indian tribe. She and her best friend, Sacajawea, were forced to march 1000 miles from Montana to a North Dakota Indian village, where Naya Nuki became a slave.
Escape and reunion with her Shoshoni people was the only thing on Naya Nuki’s mind. She secretly began to prepare for her escape along the Missouri River. All during the long march east she had been watching for landmarks and hiding places.
Finally the opportunity to run away came. Naya Nuki traveled alone in the wilderness for more than a month. Her journey presents an amazing story of danger, courage, and survival skills.
ISBN: 188011400-3
175 Pages
Softback
5 1/4″ x 7 5/8″
Grandview Publishing Company, 1983
No Eye Can See
When blind and widowed Suzanne Cullver reaches California with a group of women who have survived tragedy on the Oregon Trail, she sets her mind on doing for herself all that must be done. Though she cannot see, she rejects offers of assistance, unwittingly risking her children’s safety, and her own.
Her companions blindly falter as well, held hostage by their own pasts. As Suzanne attempts to control her life in Shasta City, Ruth defends against past errors, failing to see how she limits love. Meanwhile, Mazy’s vision seems to be permanently clouded by her late husband’s betrayal. But when a young stagedriver risks all for a Wintu Indian, his life becomes entangled with the turnaround women, and together they are changed forever as they discover that No Eye Can See all the good God has in store for those who love Him.
ISBN: 1-57856-233-3
388 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″
Waterbrook Press, 2001
No Life for a Lady
When Agnes Morley Cleveland was born on a New Mexico cattle ranch in 1874, the term “Wild West” was a reality, not a cliche. In those days cowboy didn’t know they were picturesque, horse rustlers were to be handled as seemed best on the occasion, and young ladies thought nothing of punching cows and hunting grizzlies in between school terms. Mrs. Cleveland’s personal history of her experiences is “topnotch Americana, honestly and entertainingly told.” – The New Yorker
ISBN – 978-0-8032-5868-6
356 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″
University of Nebraska Press, 1941
Old Bill Williams – Mountain Man
Born during the American Revolution, Williams was a child of the early frontier. In his young manhood he became an itinerant preacher and appointed himself a missionary to the Osages, who soon converted him to their lifeway. The young Osage woman he married died after bearing his two daughters. From this point on, Old Bill forsook civilization and made the wilderness his home. He was a master trapper and so identified himself in signing his name. He was one of the guides of the Sibley survey of the Santa Fe Trail in 1825 and some twenty years later was a guide with two different Fremont expeditions.
ISBN: 978-0-8061-1698-3
234 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
University of Oklahoma Press, 1962
Old Forts Never Die -The Middle Missouri Fur Trade, 1738 – 1850
The Proceedings of the 2018 National Fur Trade Symposium
The North Dakota Heritage Center was a most appropriate setting for the National Fur Trade Symposium in 2018. On the state capitol grounds, at the heart of the ancient trading centers on the Middle Missouri, and in the center of the Northern Plains National Heritage Area, professional and amateur historians, scholars of the fur trade, convened to deliver and hear the papers in this volume.
390 Pages
Softback
8 1/2″ x 11″
Bismarck North Dakota, September 26-29, 2018
Old-Fashioned Dutch Oven Cookbook – with authentic sourdough cookery and the old-time arts of smoking and jerking fish and game.
First of its kind in print, this outdoor cookbook specializes in old-fashioned Dutch oven cookery and sourdough recipes. The book explains how to build the right kind of fire, for the best results with a minimum of time and effort. Tempting recipes for hungry fishermen and hunters include pot roasts, mulligan stews, and dishes made fish or various kinds, bear meat, buffalo, venison, upland game birds, rabbit, woodchuck, and many more.
Sourdough recipes include “starters,” flapjacks, and several kinds of biscuits. Don Holm explains about jerky (dried meat), one of the most concentrated edibles known to man. He tells how jerky can be made into pemmican, the perfect outdoor food for the trail.
ISBN – 978-0-87004-133-4
131 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Caxton Press, 2021
Om-kas-toe – Blackfeet Twin Captures an Elkdog
Young Om-kas-toe longs for the day when he can take his place as a brave. He doesn’t have to wait long for adventure, however. While serving as lookouts he and his twin sister discover a strange animal that has never before been seen by the Blackfeet tribe.
The animal is a horse; the tribe calls it an elkdog. Life in the tribe is never the same after the first elkdog is discovered and captured. For many years the story of the twins and the first elkdog is told around Blackfeet fires.
ISBN: 978-1-880114-05-6
215 Pages
Softback
5 1/4″ x 7 5/8″
Grandview Publishing Company, 1986
With remote waterways and unpressured trout, Wyoming’s Wind River Range is the backcountry fly angler’s mecca. In the alpine lakes and streams, trout may approach a dry fly two or more at a time, and an angler can cast for days without seeing another person, let alone another angler. But more than just a place to catch lots of fish, the range is also a place to disconnect from noise and networks and reconnect with oneself. In a series of essays on misfortunate father-and-son backpacking trips, disaffected Boy Scouts, psychotropic deep-woods epiphanies and many other topics, author Chadd VanZanten offers not only a survey of the fishing and history of the Wind Rivers but a tour of personal landscapes as well.
ISBN – 978-1-4671-4043-0
144 Pages
Softback
5 7/8″ x 9″
The History Press, 2018
The Encyclopedia of Trade Goods – Volume, 5 Ornaments & Art Supplies of the Fur Trade
This final encyclopedia printed of our 6-volume set, Ornaments and Art Supplies is 549 pages long with 488 images. The 17 chapters cover beads; trade silver; jewelry; shell & bone; bells; buttons; exonumia; wire & chain; tacks; playing cards; musical instruments; fur, feathers leather and hair; paints, pigments and dyes; and paper, pens and pencils. Fully indexed with appendices on how buttons and beads were made and a glossary of French terms for trade silver. – Museum of the Fur Trade
ISBN – 978-0-912611-22-8
513 Pages
Hardback
11 1/4″ x 11 1/4″
Museum of the Fur Trade, 2023
Our Museum of Us – Curating your Family’s Past into a Digital Future.
Sometimes our stuff possesses us, as much as we possess it. As we accumulate treasures and objects over the course of our lives, we come to value the stories and experiences they reflect, but don’t take time to curate things in our “My Museum of Me.” Stories, experiences, and values are lost when the objects are misplaced in time, locked away in storage units, or discarded at the end of one’s life.
This book proposes families engage in the process of curation, which includes listening to elders’ stories about their things, making digital stories to archive the values these items hold for their owner(s) and keep these digital stories for generations to come.
In short create an “Our Museum of Us.”
ISBN – 9798660046148
211 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Mark Standley, 2020
