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 fellows 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 Long Hunters,

1761 to 1775.

So again, this new Mountain Man edition about the beaver skin trade is available for pre-order now wherever audio books are sold.

It's called Meat Eaters American History, The Mountain Men, 1806 to 1840, by me, Stephen Rinella.

My name is Clay Newcomb, and this is a production of the Bear Grease podcast called The Bear Grease Render,

where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes of the actual Bear Grease podcast.

Presented by FHF Gear, American-made, purpose-built, hunting and fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged as the places we explore.

Well, I've been looking forward to this render for a while.

We kind of got off schedule.

We did the first Night Rider Tobacco War episode.

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