Re: Do you think you could have lived like a Mt. man..
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They didn't do it right obviously. I learned from watching "alone" that you have to freak out every time you see a predator and every time you catch a fish you have to scream "Yes!" at the top of your lungs. I bet they didn't do that in Indian country back in the day. Who was the half breed mountain man who went West to escape slavery? Seemed like a pretty brave man. I've read his fictionalized life story a few time, would like to read the real one.
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Re: Do you think you could have lived like a Mt. man..
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It was a JOB and just like some jobs you either like them or hate them. I don't think any of them weer ready for that life but learned to adapt or die. I'm sure the majority failed or died trying to make It work.
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Re: Do you think you could have lived like a Mt. man..
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You would have to have some mental illness to go live like a hermit in the bush by yourself for years on end. Maybe those who choose to live cheek to jowl with neighbors are the ones who are mentally ill. Look at all the social dysfunction in urban areas today. "Woe unto those who choose to live house by house...…..field by field.....until there be no place ye may be placed alone in the midst of the earth."
Life ain't supposed to be easy.
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Re: Do you think you could have lived like a Mt. man..
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My nephew once commented we wouldn’t have made very good mt men. We were three days in on a week long hunt in the mts of Co. and hadn’t drawn blood yet. I chuckled and asked if there weren’t antler restrictions and species restrictions and sex restrictions could we have not made meat several times over? He said Oh, I hadn’t thought about it like that. Yeah I guess we would be living pretty fat. No doubt in my mind if illness or hostiles didn’t get me I could live on the land very well.
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Re: Do you think you could have lived like a Mt. man..
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It was a JOB and just like some jobs you either like them or hate them. I don't think any of them weer ready for that life but learned to adapt or die. I'm sure the majority failed or died trying to make It work. Yup. I heard the vast majority were poor desperate city slickers that had never set a trap or fired a gun. They saw an add in a paper for wokk and potential payout.
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Re: Do you think you could have lived like a Mt. man..
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You wont get along well in the wilderness living alone over the long term.People become "bushed" living like that. All the tasks necessary to live comfortably need to be shared within a family group or small community. That is why all the people that thrived in the wilderness lived associated within a tribe.
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Re: Do you think you could have lived like a Mt. man..
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You wont get along well in the wilderness living alone over the long term.People become "bushed" living like that. All the tasks necessary to live comfortably need to be shared within a family group or small community. That is why all the people that thrived in the wilderness lived associated within a tribe. Exactly.
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Re: Do you think you could have lived like a Mt. man..
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You wont get along well in the wilderness living alone over the long term.People become "bushed" living like that. All the tasks necessary to live comfortably need to be shared within a family group or small community. That is why all the people that thrived in the wilderness lived associated within a tribe. Exactly. Yup....wimmen did all the work, then some idiot thought they could improve on that system.
Life ain't supposed to be easy.
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