Rocky Mountain Outfit

02/05/2017

A few of the men made it out for a camp and hunt. Unfortunately the wind kept the men and animals hunkered down.

12/22/2016

The American Mountain Men is looking for great articles from historians, mountaineers, tradesmen, scholars, survivalists, horsemen, artists and others who love the great outdoors and early 19th century American History. We will publish your article, photography and artwork in our quarterly publication; The Tomahawk & Long Rifle - The official publication of the American Mountain Men.

You may subscribe to the Tomahawk & Long Rifle and become an Associate Member of The American Mountain Men at the following link:
http://americanmountainmen.org/tlr/

The American Mountain Men is an association of individuals dedicated to the preservation of the traditions and ways of our nation’s greatest, most daring explorers and pioneers, the Mountain Men; to the actual conservation of our nation’s remaining natural wilderness and wildlife; and to the ability of our members to survive alone, under any circumstances, using only what nature has to offer.
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The official publication of the American Mountain Men is the Tomahawk and Long Rifle. This is a quarterly magazine about Mountain Man skills, history, and activities, written since 1972 by today’s American Mountain Men.

09/27/2016

Nathan Blanchard was successful in putting up a Bear and some fat as well.

07/05/2016

Waylon and Brad did a short camp last weekend in the country north of Middle Park. Tried our hand out fishing and caught a couple small brook trout. Hope everyone is having a great summer! -bcbailey

05/04/2016

Joy Poole, NM Deputy State Librarian, will be giving two talks about her book "Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico: Diaries of Dr. Rowland Willard" next week. Willard was a young physician who traveled west in 1825. Along the way he encountered Hugh Glass and examined his old injuries.


Thursday, May 12th
Philip S. Miller Library, CR Bank Room East/West
100 S Wilcox St, Castle Rock, CO 80104
7pm - 9pm
http://host.evanced.info/douglas/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=106455


Sunday, May 15th
Fort Collins Elks Lodge
1424 E. Mulberry Street, Ft Collins, CO
Talk is at 7:15pm.

Dinner prior to the talk. $20 per person. Reservation required by noon May 13th. Call or email Klaus/Marie Krizanovic (970-658-8285) [email protected]
Salad, Meatloaf, Scalloped Potatoes, Green Beans, Dinner Roll, Dessert

Castle Rock Historical Society and the library welcome Joy Poole who will talk about her book "Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico: Diaries of Dr. Rowland Willard," including the bear attack of Hugh Glass as told in "The Revenant."

01/24/2016

Kenosha Pass jaunt

12/21/2015

3 day jaunt in Eldora Canyon near Eldora, CO

06/16/2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUzSe8NL_Ek&feature=share

Meet the American Mountain Men, an invitation-only group of reenactors who are inspired by the fur trade, which flourished in North America from roughly 1800...

05/05/2015

Waylon and Brad were at the Ft Lupton Heritage Fair this past Saturday. -- Brad

01/25/2015

Denny Leonard (IA), Steve Chin (CO), Todd "Pete" Peterson (NE) recently went on a snowshoe trip up near the Laramie River headwaters. Brad Bailey had to pull out early.

01/13/2015

Here's a "gage d'amour" or pipe/to***co bag that I made recently. It is made of red ochre dyed braintan buckskin with porcupine quillwork all sewn with deer backstrap sinew. The fringe are also wrapped with porcupine quills. The neck strap has some original 1800s clear and yellow "Russian" or faceted beads. Clay pipe. I store to***co in the bag along with a burning lens. -- Brad

12/25/2014

Another year is coming to an end, and it’s time to reflect on all the accomplishments and great times we had.

The men of the party participated in 10 camps ranging from snowshoe treks, high mountain meadows, hunting, trapping, relaxing, etc. There were RMO members present at all 3 national level events. In total the men were out on the ground approximately 60 days this year. Besides being out on the ground, the spirit of educating the public is alive and well. Approximately 250 hours of volunteer work was done at various sites such as Bents Fort, Ft Laramie, Ft Uncompaghre, Ft Lupton, &c.

The hunting seasons were successful for a number of the men. There were 2 turkeys, 1 deer, 3 elk, 22 beaver, and various other small game harvested. Thanks to Tom Karnuta, Nathan Blanchard, Gabe Hanratty, Steve Chin, and Brad Bailey for helping to supply the brigade with plenty of meat.

The party grew by 2 members during the year. Waylon Johnson became a pilgrim in August. Former Florida AMM member Robert Earl Lentz submitted for reinstatement.

The RMO continues to have a strong website that is updated a handful of times per year. This year the website had 190,000 page views. It continues to draw interest from around the world and possible prospective members.

Thanks for all the support, and we look forward to another great year.

-- Gabe and Brad