The perfect magnet for your vehicle or even for your refrigerator.
Measurements:
5″ x 3 1/8″
It features the Museum of the Mountain Man logo.
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.
Carl Roters and the Rendezvous Murals
Following the Lewis and Clark expedition, “mountain men” fanned out across the Rocky Mountains to explore the promise of a new frontier, trapping beaver and opening up the trade routes that become the famous Oregon Trail. From 1825 – 40, trappers, traders and American Indians journeyed thousands of miles to the annual Rendezvous, a monthlong gathering for trading, swapping stories, carousing and enjoying all manner of raucous entertainment. Carl Roters’ epic Rendezvous Murals bring to life this colorful era of American history. His vibrant images, created with innovative media and techniques, are published here for the first time.
ISBN – 0-9748030-0-6
149 Pages
Hardback
12 1/4″ x 13 1/2″
Venture Development Group, 2004
Carvings on the Aspens and Collection of Poems – A Commemorative Edition by the Sublette County Artists’ Guild
The Sublette County Artists’ Guild has kindly chosen to share its 75th anniversary celebration with the people of Wyoming — and what a celebration that has come to be.
In paying tribute to Lora Neal Jewett, Josephine Jons Jones, Marie Meyer, Mary Annette Murdock, Louise McCabe Rathbun and May McAlister Sommers, the guild is paying tribute to a group of people who have inspired hearts and touched lives with their strong personalities and vivid writing.
Their art fills this book, which brings together “Carvings on the Aspens” and “Collection of Poems,” two of the earliest publications for the Sublette County Artists’ Guild. Formed in 1928, the guild specializes in the sort of uniquely personal tales that bring alive the plains of Wyoming.
ISBN – 1-57579-280-X
217 Pages
Hardback
6 1/4″ x 9 1/4″
Sublette County Artists’ Guild, 2004
Chanta Peta
Fire Heart’s Hemd Und Der Arikara-Krieg 1823
Fire Heart’s Shirt and the Arikara War 1823
Bilingual Edition Deutsch /English
On August 1823, the first Indian war West of the Mississippi took place. A combined force of more than 1,000 US Infantry men, mountain men, and allied Sioux Indians, commanded by Lt. Col. Henry Leavenworth, attacked two Arikara villages. Their warriors were accused of having killed employees of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company unprovoked.
ISBN – 978-3-89510-145-8
48 Pages
Softback
8 1/4″ x 10 3/4″
Tatanka Press, 2018
Clark the Mountain Beaver and His Big Adventure!
Clark the Mountain Beaver is a shy secretive critter that lives alone in his burrows. On the rare occasion when he does venture out into the world, he is always being confused with the more popular American Beaver. It’s a little frustrating for him because other critters never seem to know who he is or that he even exists. One day, Clark decides to go on a big adventure to meet the critters that live around him.
ISBN: 978-1-9431641-7-2
64 Pages
Hardback
11 1/4″ x 8 3/4″
AVIVA Publishing, 2015
The Encyclopedia of Trade Goods – Volume 4, Clothing & Textiles of the Fur Trade
Clothing & Textiles of the Fur Trade is the result of more than sixty years of research. It contains nearly 900 images, most in color, illustrating over 2,000 samples of textiles that were traded to the native people of North America. The book covers wools, worsteds, linens, cottons, silks, and notions, as well as clothing worn by fur traders and Indians. – Museum of the Fur Trade
ISBN – 978-0-912611-21-1
636 Pages
Hardback
11 1/4″ x 11 1/4″
Museum of the Fur Trade, 2014
Competitive Struggle: America’s Western Fur Trading Posts, 1764 – 1865
Competitive Struggle recounts the 101-year history of America’s western fur trade. From the founding of St. Louis in 1764 through 1865, the demand for beaver pelts and buffalo robes spawned a competitive fervor that enveloped mountain men, traders, national governments, and Native Americans.
ISBN: 978-0-87004-510-3
330 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Caxton Press, 1999
Cooking Backyard to Backcountry – 12 Techniques and 150 Recipes for Fabulous Outdoor Cooking
Cooking Backyard to Backcountry is a unique approach to memorable outdoor cooking. Whether you use a gas grill, a new charcoal grill, or a wood fire, you’ll find special techniques-some new, some ancient-that will enhance your cooking experience.
Learn How to:
- Create crowd-pleasing barbecue the traditional way.
- Fire up flavor by cooking directly on a wood plank.
- Grill great anytime, anywhere, even on simple “grills for the hills.”
- Bake anything and everything in a classic Dutch oven.
- Prepare spectacular meals in a deep-pit barbecue
- Go primitive — and delicious — by cooking on a hot stone slab.
- Boil up an unforgettable stew — or a fabulous cup of coffee — using the Native American technique of stone boiling.
- Cook with foil, spits, reflector ovens, and steam pits.
ISBN: 978-1-60639-000-9
196 Pages
Softback
6 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
Riverbend Publishing, 2009
Cora, Wyoming – A Brief History of a Western Rural Community
“Wyoming’s Upper Green River Valley was settled by homesteading cattle and sheep ranchers. Distances between the homesteads were significant, and travel was challenging on the unimproved wagon roads. Small communities offering a post office, store, and school were vital to the land-locked ranchers. In the Valley’s 140-year history, approximately thirty-seven small communities existed throughout this vast area. Cora was one of these communities.
ISBN: 978-0-9973143-7-3
44 Pages
Softback
8 1/2″ x 11″
Sublette County Historical Society/Museum of the Mountain Man, 2022
This book is a photographic journal of my wanderings during the year 2020. Even though most of the United States has been locked down, we have enjoyed exploring remote areas. I photographed throughout the year and produced nearly 100,000 images from this year of exploring. This book contains about 200 of those images including wildlife, the four seasons, spectacular sunrises and sunsets and astrophotography.
ISBN – 978-1-6629-1030-2
221 Pages
Hardback
11 1/4″ x 8 3/4″
Gatekeeper Press, 2020
Crow Killer – The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
Much of the world now knows mountain man John Johnson as Robert Redford in the movie Jeremiah Johnson. The real Johnson was a far cry from the Redford version. Standing 6’2″ in his stocking feet and weighing nearly 250 pounds, he was a mountain man among mountain men, one of the toughest customers on the western frontier. One morning in 1847 he returned to his Rocky Mountain trapper’s cabin to find the remains of his murdered Indian wife and her unborn child. He vowed vengeance against an entire Indian tribe.
ISBN: 978-0-253-02083-3
174 pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Indiana University Press, 1983
Dear Deer – A Book of Homophones
Clever Aunt Ant has just moved to the zoo. In a letter to her DEAR friend, DEER, she describes the quirky animal behavior she sees. There’s the MOOSE who loves MOUSSE and ATE EIGHT bowls, and the WHALE who is ALLOWED to WAIL ALOUD. And that’s just for starters!
ISBN – 978-0-312-62899-4
40 Pages
Softback
9″ x 9″
Square Fish – Henry Holt and Company, 2007
A journal that is in close comparison to what the Mountain Men would have used.
It has a distressed look with stitching on the spine of the book. It comes with an attached small leather strap that can be wrapped around the journal to secure it closed.
The journal measures 6″ x 4 3/4″
Doe Sia – Bannock Girl and the Handcart Pioneers
Doe Sia, a ten-year-old Bannock girl, became known for her bravery when she and her heroic pet, Otterdog, saved a little boy from drowning. On the other side of the world in Denmark, Emma has also earned a reputation for courage by rescuing an elderly man from a burning barn.
When Emma immigrates to America and joins the “Handcart Pioneers” she and Doe Sia meet and form an immediate bond. This bond is tested during a fierce mountain blizzard, in which Emma is sure she will die. But Doe Sia knows how to build a shelter from branches, get meat from a dead buffalo, and, most important, find her way back to her people. Together the girls face one of nature’s greatest threats. Together they must struggle to survive.
ISBN: 978-1-880114-20-9
203 Pages
Softback
5 1/4″ x 7 5/8″
Grandview Publishing Company, 1999
Dreams on the Green – Seven Mile River Ranch
The Seven Mile River Ranch is one of a kind. It is unique in western Wyoming and the western United States. No where else has such an incredible piece of land been preserved in this manner.
Through the efforts of its owners and managers it remains an unspoiled and pristine natural wildlife preserve and fishing haven. The ranch contains over seven miles of the famed Green River, a section of Horse Creek and other minor tributaries of the Green River. It has been conserved through conservation easements with strong provisions encouraging its owners to leave the ranch as it exists today.
It is also the home to six of the original Green River Rendezvous conducted between 1824-40. This event brought together trappers/mountain men, native Americans and the fur trade companies to trade, barter and celebrate. Thousands upon thousands of participants attended these events on the ranch properties nearly two hundred years ago.
The ranch is a beautiful parcel of about 3,300 acres and this book is designed to showcase that beauty and recognize the efforts of the owners to preserve and enhance this treasure for future generations.
ISBN – 978-1-6629-2149-0
195 Pages
Hardback
11 1/4″ x 8 3/4″
Gatekeeper Press, 2022
Dutch Oven Cooking
Dutch Oven Cooking is a handy little guide that’s bound to be a hit on any camping trip. It shows you how to practice the delicious “art” of Dutch oven cooking, and it’s packed with lots of simple recipes for simply great eatin’.
ISBN: 978-1-58979-352-1
98 Pages
Softback
5″ x 7″
National Book Network, 2006
