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Dons Buckskin And Grabs. Rifle Steel Rigger Turns Mountain Man
Ed Keney, a steel rigger turned aspiring mountain man, dreams of a Buckskin life in the Bitterroot and Absaroka while building a solar heated cabin in Ohio and planning a Mountain Man Experience forest school in August. He spends weeks and years balancing work, travel, and the lure of ren dezvous style living and rugged self reliance. Keney, born Canton Ohio, left Montana for early West summers, longs for beaver pelt barter days, and imagines a modern survival enterprise in the mountains. He remains a steel worker by trade but pursues a wilderness ethos and a unique living project amid zoning hurdles and the lure of the woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sergio Lalli
Associated Press
Madison, Ohio
Ed Keney
Rockies
Keney
Darby
Mont
St. Louis
Cleveland
Bitterroot Valley
Absaroka Mountains
Canton
Ohio
Far West
National
Muzzle Loading Rifle Association
American Mountain Men
Kirtland
Jedediah
Strofig Smith
Mike Fink
John Colter
Hugh Glass
Kit Carson
Bitterroot National Forest