Hey, American History Buffs. Hunting History Buffs, listen up. We're back at it with another volume

of our Meat Eaters American History series. In this edition titled The Mountain Men, 1806 to 1840,

we tackle the Rocky Mountain Beaver trade and dive into the lives and legends of fellas

like Jim Bridger, Jed Smith, and John Coulter.

This small but legendary fraternity of Backwoodsmen helped define an era when the West represented not just unmapped territory,

but untapped opportunity for those willing to endure some heinous and at times violent conditions.

We explain what started the Mountain Man era and what ended it.

We tell you everything you'd ever want to know about what the Mountain Men ate,

how they hunted and trapped, what gear they carried, what clothes they wore,

how they interacted with Native Americans,

how 10% of them died violent deaths, and even detailed

descriptions of how they performed amputations on the fly. It's as dark and bloody and good as

our previous volume about the white-tailed deer skin trade, which is titled The Longhunter's,

1761

to 1775.

So again, you can buy

this wherever audio books are sold.

Meat Eaters American History,

The Mountain Men, 1806

to 1840 by

Stephen Rinella.

Music Renoa. Welcome back to another episode of Cutting the Distance podcast.

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