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🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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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. |
1:23.8 | Thank you. Renewa. |
1:39.2 | From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cow's Week in Review with Ryan Cal Cal. |
1:42.7 | Here's Cal. |
1:45.1 | And East Texas man was cited last year for hunting on private property without permission. |
1:50.1 | But that's not why this story made national news last week. |
1:53.3 | Texas Parks and Wildlife reports that the man was found using a camo-covered porto potty as a hunting |
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