men went to the mountains to get rich
probably more of them died than survived
and certainly more died than got rich it
was sort of the end of the discovery era
of North America the traders are the
ones that made the most money out of it
they were pathfinders they were
exploring new uncharted territory I’m
the member of the AMM American mountain
men the AMM is an invitation-only group
and I think what has drawn most of us to
it is most of us started out going to
mountain man Rhonda gurus the guys that
moved on to the AMM were people that
were more interested and really learning
the day to day life it was a full-time
job surviving
well the AMM brings a wide variety of
people from all walks of life to it and
they all bring something different
simplicity the connection with the earth
the animals the non garbage non
complicated dependent on only yourself
and your own skills it’s a freedom a
unique freedom
if you ask any of us what are our most
precious precious feeling that we have
out here and on the trail is a feeling
of Kure freed freedom that written
asthma
it’s interesting is just the common
thirst for the knowledge of how they
lived and we all learn from one another
things like just being warm simple
things that we take for granted today
they didn’t write about that in their
journals because they just assumed
everybody knew how to make fire the the
sort of Hollywood version of the of the
lone trapper is not the mainstream they
trapped in brigades that was for
survival most of these guys didn’t get
rich doing this most of them by the time
rendezvous was over they had spent
everything they made these going for
four to six dollars a piece in the old
days of run a good trapper would come in
and be able to cash in for anywhere up
to a thousand twelve hundred dollars
worth of goods they did not exchange
money they were exchanging this and
bartering for goods that were brought
out from st. Louis and it was the finest
felt for making hat and it was very
fashionable and it was very profitable
the technology of the day is one of the
things that fascinates me the tools that
they made that are by today’s standards
very crude they were able to turn out
precision working Clark once a a lot of
people may not realize is mountain men
didn’t have a munitions you went to
trade you trade for raw material you
could get your powder and you could get
lead and then you would have a ladle and
you would heat the lead over your
campfire and melt it and then pour it
into the ladle and that’s called running
ball we’re living the vestige of
American history through our eyes were
we living it and hopefully bringing it
alive for people in today’s world in a
way that perhaps they’re not taught in
school
it’s not written about exactly what be
the last of the last
no I was there and I know sober you
you
Oh
probably more of them died than survived
and certainly more died than got rich it
was sort of the end of the discovery era
of North America the traders are the
ones that made the most money out of it
they were pathfinders they were
exploring new uncharted territory I’m
the member of the AMM American mountain
men the AMM is an invitation-only group
and I think what has drawn most of us to
it is most of us started out going to
mountain man Rhonda gurus the guys that
moved on to the AMM were people that
were more interested and really learning
the day to day life it was a full-time
job surviving
well the AMM brings a wide variety of
people from all walks of life to it and
they all bring something different
simplicity the connection with the earth
the animals the non garbage non
complicated dependent on only yourself
and your own skills it’s a freedom a
unique freedom
if you ask any of us what are our most
precious precious feeling that we have
out here and on the trail is a feeling
of Kure freed freedom that written
asthma
it’s interesting is just the common
thirst for the knowledge of how they
lived and we all learn from one another
things like just being warm simple
things that we take for granted today
they didn’t write about that in their
journals because they just assumed
everybody knew how to make fire the the
sort of Hollywood version of the of the
lone trapper is not the mainstream they
trapped in brigades that was for
survival most of these guys didn’t get
rich doing this most of them by the time
rendezvous was over they had spent
everything they made these going for
four to six dollars a piece in the old
days of run a good trapper would come in
and be able to cash in for anywhere up
to a thousand twelve hundred dollars
worth of goods they did not exchange
money they were exchanging this and
bartering for goods that were brought
out from st. Louis and it was the finest
felt for making hat and it was very
fashionable and it was very profitable
the technology of the day is one of the
things that fascinates me the tools that
they made that are by today’s standards
very crude they were able to turn out
precision working Clark once a a lot of
people may not realize is mountain men
didn’t have a munitions you went to
trade you trade for raw material you
could get your powder and you could get
lead and then you would have a ladle and
you would heat the lead over your
campfire and melt it and then pour it
into the ladle and that’s called running
ball we’re living the vestige of
American history through our eyes were
we living it and hopefully bringing it
alive for people in today’s world in a
way that perhaps they’re not taught in
school
it’s not written about exactly what be
the last of the last
no I was there and I know sober you
you
Oh
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