Blue Mountain Buckskin was the most influential for him however, because it had troubleshooting tips and an actual sample of buckskin…how it should feel.
#BRAIN TANNING HIDES BY MATTEW RICHARDS HOW TO#
Most of the books were truly vague on how to tan, so he’d have to experiment with things such as brain to water ratio, and other aspects of tanning.
#BRAIN TANNING HIDES BY MATTEW RICHARDS TRIAL#
Lance started brain tanning in the 70’s using the method of much trial and error from books he found. It didn’t take us long to find our friends, Lance, and later, TC. It was a beautiful location, with mountains in the distance and a small stream running through camp, which had beaver dam just up current. Labor Day Weekend arrived at Fort Bridger with a bronze sculpture of Jim Bridger pointing the way. “Do we still go with no hides to sell…and pass up the opportunity to attend one of the biggest rendezvous’ in the country? Horse Feathers!!! We’re going!” In early July, we got an order from a costume designer who ended up buying all the leather we had. It was at the High Plains where one of our friends, TC, was looking at some of my brain tanned leather, and said, “ Brother Man….you should bring some of this stuff to Fort Bridger.” The following fall, I saved out some hides to finish in August just before the Fort Bridger ‘Vous. Since then, we have attended around 1-2 a year, including the High Plains Regional Rendezvous’. My wife Stacie and I attended her first rendezvous in 2015, where we met up with my friend, Fawn Killer at the Bemidji, MN Hang Fire Rendezvous. I continued attending rendezvous’ through my early 20’s. Mountain men, voyageurs, long hunters, natives, pioneers, traders… all makes and models of wild men, with names like Three Legs (Jim), Fawn Killer, Wood Tick, Uncle Ernie, Crooked Nose, and Colonel Tom, just to name a few. The first rendezvous I ever attended was with my dad and Jim in Kindred, North Dakota, at the age of 12. When my dad told me about a cousin, Jim Walker, who went to mountain man rendezvous’, I could hardly wait to ask if I could tag along. Some of the first books that I can remember reading were of the life stories of Daniel Boone, Jim Bridger, Kit Karson, Jedidiah Smith, and other epic accounts such as the Last of the Mohicans.
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