Who are these guys? They’re American mountain men—reenactors of the fur trade that flourished in North America from roughly 1800 to 1840. Like the better known reenactors of the Civil War ...
The brutal and unforgiving American frontier created a different kind of man. These explorers, fur trappers, guides, and ...
The period of the Mountain Men and their signature firearms is short but outstanding: the golden age in the early 19th ...