Traditional Muzzleloading Association
The Den - Members' Library => Resources => Topic started by: greggholmes on June 03, 2012, 04:57:54 AM
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I came across this book reading Readers Digest "Back to basics"
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I was looking at water proofing canvas. The picture showed a tent that looked like a Baker but was called a "shanty" tent.
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Googling the name in the article "Nessmuk" revealed it to be the pen name of George W. Sears. December 2, 1821 – May 1, 1890.
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"He was a sportswriter for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s and an early conservationist. His stories, appearing under the pen name, "Nessmuk" popularized self-guided canoe camping tours of the Adirondack lakes in open, lightweight solo canoes and what is today called ultralight camping."
He was a "trekker". He has a book called Woodcraft that describes many of his hikes and trips that, i believe is a must read. Yes he is a few years beyond the fur trade era but i believe he instills the spirit of the times.
His book is a free ebook that can be read online Here :
online book (http://http)
Or downloaded for free legally here.
free ebook download (http://http)
He describes what to take and how to take it and what to do when you get out there.
again a must read..
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Thanks for the resource and those links.
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Think I've seen that book before, but can't remember if I ever printed it out and read it. If not, I know where I can find it! Thanks.
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Thank you for the link.
Thats kind of like my old tent I started with.
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One of my favorite books, which my father gave me some 40 years ago. A lot of what he advocates would probably be frowned on these days but it is still very enlightening. And he used a muzzle loader instead of one of those new fangled cartridge rifles to boot!
~Kees~