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Swampman
03-14-2012, 06:00 PM
"The year was 1882....He traveled by boat and rail from Ottawa to Winnipeg, which was then a young city, taking root around the old Hudson Bay Company trading site of Fort Gary. There he bought a saddle, a .22 caliber single-shot rifle, and a .45 caliber Business Sharps, a somewhat ligher version of the Big Fity Sharps, the favorite rifle of the buffalo hunters. He already had a 12 bore muzzleloading shotgun, so his arsenal was complete, and along with an ax and a few other necessities, he had the basic tools of a frontiersman.~Trails of a Wilderness Wanderer~Andy Russell~

starmac
03-14-2012, 07:04 PM
Another good book of the same sort is Alaska's wolf man, by Jim Reardon.
There is a lot of insight as to how tough some of the old timers really were in this book.

1Shirt
03-15-2012, 08:29 PM
It is also very worth while to read some of Teddy Roosevelt's hunting in America. Kind of eye opening!
1Shirt!