How I Left My Home And Became a Fur-Trapper
First, You Got To Make Yerself a Hawken
Perticlars of My Piece
I Engraved The Cover
My Belt Gun Was a .50-Caliber, Slow-Twist Green River Barr'l
Like The Oldtimers, I 'Signed' My Barrel On The 'Flats'"
Trapper Beltguns
Too Late, Strictly - For The Mountainman Era, My 'Navy Colt' Is Still a Prized Possession
Flasks Sometimes Alternate to Horns for Powder
My Own Grandad's 'Family Rifle' Hung Over My Fireplace Many Years
I Used Genuine Buffler Horn Fer My Powderhorn
A Personal Embellishment"
You Make Yer Pouch With A 'Fitted' Spout You Roll Out of Copper
You Have To Learn Your Early Tradebeads
I Used Faceted Russian 'Blues' (Old Ones!), Which The Crows Would Have Had, For My Gun Case Fringe
The 'Weeping Heart' Was Favored Design of the Times: I Had a Heavy Brass One On My Shooting Pouch (It Was Also The Name of My Smithy: See Blacksmith Link)