Ep. 661: So You Want To Be A Mountain Man

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Steve Rinella discusses this book as the best thing ever written about General Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He quotes from it to describe the Unkpapa Sioux warrior named Gall, using it as a 'buffalo meat testimonial' in the context of discussing the diet and physical prowess of Native Americans.

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Randall references this biography when discussing the mortality rate of mountain men. He mentions that Stanley Vestal, in his biography of Bridger, suggested that a mountain man died every ten days, though Randall expresses skepticism about this claim.

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Mentioned briefly in the context of discussing the revolutionary fervor and building of the American patriotic movement in the years leading up to the American Revolution, alongside references to the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere.