13 Mountain Men Tools Hollywood Always Gets Wrong

13 Mountain Men Tools Hollywood Always Gets Wrong Almost everything you picture about a mountain man's gear is wrong. Hollywood sold you the lone loner with one trusty long rifle; the record tells a quieter, harder, stranger story about the objects that actually did the work. Resources: Museum of the Mountain Man page on Joe Meek, Osborne Russell and Rocky Mountain fur trade journals - https://museumofthemountainman.com/hi... Osborne Russell journal Journal of a Trapper (University of Nebraska Press edition overview via Nebraska Studies) - https://nebraskastudies.org/en/1800-1... Museum of the Fur Trade article on Green River Works knives and "up to Green River" frontier slang - https://www.furtrade.org/the-green-ri... National Park Service Fort Union Trading Post page on Hudson’s Bay point blankets and capotes in the upper Missouri trade - https://www.nps.gov/fous/learn/histor... Museum of the Fur Trade page on beaver trapping methods, castoreum lure, traps and plew values in the rendezvous era - https://www.furtrade.org/beaver/ National Park Service Bent’s Old Fort and fur trade arms page on Hawken rifles, costs and use in the Rocky Mountain trade - https://www.nps.gov/beol/learn/histor... Subscribe for more forgotten history from the American frontier - mountain men, trappers, and the West beyond the legend. 🏔️🪓 ▶️ ‪@AmosHensley‬ This video was produced exclusively for Forgotten Frontiersmen. We research the frontier and the fur-trade era using books, archives, firsthand accounts and reputable sources, and we tell it as the record has it - the people who lived beyond the edge of civilization as they really were, not as the legend remembers them. "Copyright Disclaimer" Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, education or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.