Contested Empire – Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions
In 1824, the Hudson’s Bay Company directed Ogden to decimate the fur-bearing animal population of the Snake River country. By making the region a “fur desert,” Great Britain hoped to neutralize any interest American fur trappers could have in the area. Such a mandate set British and American fur interests on a collision course, but Ogden and his American counterparts implicitly followed an unwritten law and procedure and observed a mutual sense of property and rights even as the two sides vied for control of the fur trade.
ISBN – 978-0-8061-4932-5
258 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
University of Oklahoma Press, 2002
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
Copper Cuff with the Museum of the Mountain Man Logo – Medium Size
Logo is Sterling Silver and cuff is copper.
Measures – 2 3/4″ across the widest part, 2″ from front to back and 1 1/4″ deep.
Handcrafted in Laramie, Wyoming by Dave Gilpin with Silver Stream Traders.
Copper Cuff with the Museum of the Mountain Man Logo – Small Size
Logo is Sterling Silver and cuff is copper.
Measures – 2 1/8″ across the widest part, 1 1/2″ from front to back and 1 1/4″ deep.
Handcrafted in Laramie, Wyoming by Dave Gilpin with Silver Stream Traders.
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
Deerskins into Buckskins – How to Tan with Brains, Soap or Eggs
2nd Edition Revised & Updated
Detailed photographs and illustrations, a simple to follow style, and fourteen years of experience teaching thousands of people how to tan, allow Matt Richards to show you exactly what you need to know to successfully turn your deer, elk, moose or buffalo skins into the leather preferred by outdoorsmen and native people for millennia. You’ll learn the traditional methods of brain tanning as well as how to use a dozen eggs or soap and oil instead. This revised and updated edition includes substantial improvements to the process that make it even easier for you to produce soft and durable buckskin.
ISBN – 0-9658672-4-2
240 Pages
Softback
5 1/4″ x 8 1/4″
Backcountry Publishing, 2004
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
Dress Clothes of the Plains Indians
Volume 140 in the civilization of the American Indian Series
Challenging the misconception that the tribes of the Central Plains dressed alike, Dress Clothing of the Plains Indians assembles the varied distinctive dress of the Plains Indians and provides reliable information on the traditions and preferences of each tribe. While certain similarities can be found, tribes had recognizable cuts, colors, decorative symbols, and trims, as well as styles of hair and headdress, footwear, and accessories. In writing this book the author searched early mongraphs, primary sources, and museums, and helped make Indian costumes for exhibitions and dances.
ISBN – 978-0-8061-2137-6
219 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
University of Oklahoma Press, 1990
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
Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West
This book is a full-color photographic guide to the identification, edibility, and medicinal uses of over 250 plant species, growing from Alaska to southern California, east across the Rocky Mountains and the Northern Plains to the Great Lakes. Herbalist and naturalist Gregory Tilford provides a thorough introduction to the world of herbal medicine for everyone interested in plants, personal well-being, and a healthy environment.
ISBN – 978-0-87842-359-0
239 Pages
Softback
5 3/8″ x 8 3/8″
Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1997
Embossed 2-Toned Leather Bag.
Embossed with Museum of the Mountain Man.
It is tan in color with a multi colored ribbon at the bottom. It has fringe on the bottom and it is square in shape with the fringe shaped like a triangle. It has a leather strap closer. Pull to each side and it will cinch in the middle.
Measurements:
6 1/2″ x 8″ (At the long portion of the fringe.)
6 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ (At the sides of the bag, shortest part.)
Ernest, The Moose Who Doesn’t Fit
Ernest is a large moose with a big problem…..He can’t fit into this book! Luckily, Ernest is also a very determined fellow, and he has a helpful little friend.
ISBN – 978-0-374-32217-5
23 Pages
Hardback
10″ x 10″
Farrar Straus Giroux New York
Macmillan Children’s Books, 2009
