Old timey first person diaries from 1800s mountain men......

BLOOD AND THUNDER by Hampton Sides on Kit Carson. Good book.

Real mem. Real world. Not this fuckup we live in.

I bet that these mountain men had some intense lives. Go out and kill a grizzly bear, trade furs at a random outpost while dressed in your blood stained buckskin outfit and then go home to make passionate love to your hot native american wife.

Now that was a time when a man could be a man!

Hmm..I had to do a research paper on Kit Carson in HS. Can't remember a damn thing about it now.

any real mem anymore?

Interesting, I wonder if they would want their diaries read

They're all so literate, shows how much present-day society has devolved.

This is the one I read...

[link to www.mtmen.org]

Favorited, thx. Basic survival, when man was at his best. Modern world is soft and weak.

The he would have hot steamy sex with his best friend up in a cabin.

Saved for later thanks.

Good point! Education has devolved.

Go read the biography of "Liver Eating" Johnson....fascinating! Supposedly the movie "Jeremiah Johnson" was based on his life.

Bump for later reading. Thanks!

I'm reading, "the frontiersmen", one of a three book series by Allan w. Eckert,it's historically accurate, written from diaries, military log books, etc...absolutely amazing.

Friday 29th [written over 28th] May Some of the Indians arrived last Evening with their families others Early this morning. I invited their cheifs & Warriors to smoke informed them That I wanted to purchase 7 horses & shewed them the goods that I would give for them. They expressed satisfaction at the liberal offer made them, but such is the use [?] that the[y] make of their horses and the value the[y] set on them that I with difficulty purchased two - they expressed great friendship for the Americans & their conduct verrify their professions, I was much supprised at the appearance of these people I expected to find them a poor lifeless set of beings, destitute of the means or desposition to defend themselves; alarmed at the sight of a white man but to the contrary, They met me with great familiarity and Ease of manner were clothed in mountain sheep skin & Buffalloe robes superior to any band of Indians in my knowledg west of Council B[l]uffs - have a great number of good horses & about the one half, well armed with English fuseeze others with bows & arrows Tomahawks & a number of them were ornamented with perl & sea shels which they informed me the[y] purchased from Indians who lived on the borders of a great lake, none of them have been to the Pasific nor have they an Idea of its extent farther than 40 or 50 miles - finding that I should not be able to get more horses from these people I made my arrangements to start the next mor[n]ing to a camp of 6 frenchmen about 6 miles distant where I was in hopes to procu[re] more horses accordingly on

A very predictable phenomena. Today, people tend not memorize anything, because information is easily available, literally on the palm of ones hand. Back then, every little piece of information was the difference between life and death, so it was carefully memorized. Information was more precious than most goods. Tendency is people know even less as time goes on. Those whom keep this "tradition" of memorizing valuable knowledge will thrive in crisis scenarios and become kings in the new post SHTF world.

^^^This^^^

If/when the cell phones and internet is knocked out, it is going to be amazing to see just how little most people know or remember.

:this1:

One thing they have in common. Lots of walking.

THANK you OP,


nothing like first hand reports

^ This ^

I have survival manual app downloaded in android. As long as an EMP does not knock out my phone this is a great free guide that is updated a lot.

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Mountain Man

I have already read a couple and am hooked! I have always been fascinated by windows into the past.

VERY cool!

Great link!

I recently read a book called "Astoria" which was an account of the 1811 expedition to the mouth of the Columbia River and the founding of the town of Astoria, all funded by John Jacob Astor, one of the richest men in America at the time.

It was a two pronged expedition. One group sailed from New York. The other went overland. Both stories are amazing. The fate of the ship, it's captain, and 22 of the crew was absolutely incredible. No spoilers. The overland group experienced incredible hardship and is also a fantastic story. Many of the survivors had PTSD afterwards.

Anyhow, this link includes some of the source material that was cited in the book, so it made for great infill reading.

Thanks