Hey, American History Buffs. Hunting History Buffs, listen up. We're back at it with another volume

of our Meat Eaters American History series. In this edition titled The Mountain Men, 1806 to 1840,

we tackle the Rocky Mountain Beaver trade and dive into the lives and legends of fellas

like Jim Bridger, Jed Smith, and John Coulter.

This small but legendary fraternity of Backwoodsmen helped define an era when the West represented not just unmapped territory,

but untapped opportunity for those willing to endure some heinous and at times violent conditions.

We explain what started the Mountain Man era and what ended it.

We tell you everything you'd ever want to know about what the Mountain Men ate,

how they hunted and trapped, what gear they carried, what clothes they wore,

how they interacted with Native Americans,

how 10% of them died violent deaths, and even detailed

descriptions of how they performed amputations on the fly. It's as dark and bloody and good as

our previous volume about the white-tailed deer skin trade, which is titled The Longhunter's,

1761 to 1775.

So again, you can buy this wherever audiobooks are sold.

Meat Eaters American History, The Mountain Men, 1806 to 1840 by Stephen Ronella.

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First Light. Go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, which is brought to you by First Light. I'm your host, Tony Peterson,

and today I'm going to talk about the deer that change us and why those encounters matter so

much. I've been thinking about this topic for a while, and it was during a January dough hunt with one of my daughters, where I got hit upside the head with the reality that some deer just changed us. Some deer encounters just changed the arc of our hunting. I hadn't figured out why it really matters or what to say about it before then, but sometimes the pieces just fall into place, and the picture becomes so much clear. So what I'm going to talk

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