Ep. 303: This Country Life - Saying Yes to Clay and the Black Bear Bonanza
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Brent's back home from the most recent Black Bear Bonanza event and talking about how he got invited to the first one that never happened. He's also highlighting the path his life has taken since being so agreeable to go any place Clay Newcomb's asked him to go. The situations he's found himself in because of it might make a more prudent person take some of those invitations under advisement. He's also sharing a listener story about how a Canadian walleye got the best of a "Yinzer" from Pittsburgh.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, American History Buffs. Hunting History Buffs, listen up. We're back at it with another volume |
| 0:05.1 | of our Meat Eaters American History series. In this edition titled The Mountain Men, 1806 to 1840, |
| 0:13.6 | we tackle the Rocky Mountain Beaver trade and dive into the lives and legends of fellas |
| 0:19.7 | like Jim Bridger, Jed Smith, and John Coulter. |
| 0:23.6 | This small but legendary fraternity of Backwoodsmen helped define an era when the West represented not just unmapped territory, |
| 0:31.4 | but untapped opportunity for those willing to endure some heinous and at times violent conditions. |
| 0:38.3 | We explain what started the Mountain Man era and what ended it. |
| 0:42.5 | We tell you everything you'd ever want to know about what the Mountain Men ate, |
| 0:46.0 | how they hunted and trapped, what gear they carried, what clothes they wore, |
| 0:49.7 | how they interacted with Native Americans, |
| 0:52.1 | how 10% of them died violent deaths, and even detailed |
| 0:56.4 | descriptions of how they performed amputations on the fly. It's as dark and bloody and good as |
| 1:03.7 | our previous volume about the white-tailed deer skin trade, which is titled The Longhunter's, |
| 1:09.8 | 1761 to 1775. |
| 1:13.2 | So again, you can buy this wherever audiobooks are sold. |
| 1:17.2 | Meat Eaters American History, The Mountain Men, 1806 to 1840 by Stephen Ronella. |
| 1:29.1 | Welcome to this country life. |
| 1:31.1 | I'm your host, Brent Reeves. |
| 1:33.3 | From coon hunting to trotlining and just general country living, I want you to stay |
| 1:37.8 | a while as I share my experiences and life lessons. |
| 1:41.5 | This country life is presented by Case Knives on Meat Eat Eater's Podcast Network, |
| 1:46.9 | bringing you the best outdoor podcast the Airways have to offer. All right, friends, |
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