>>570495>favorite mountain manSylvan Hart. Here's an article from Sports Illustrated, 1966.
http://www.si.com/vault/1966/10/03/61064/the-last-of-the-mountain-men> Soon to be known as Buckskin Bill, he fashioned his own clothes of deernskin. He constructed adobe-covered buildings with hand-hewn timbers. He mined copper, smelted it, refined it and made utensils. He even made his own flintlock rifles, boring them on an ingenious handmade machine, to "save the bother of store-bought ammunition." To pay for infrequent trips to Burgdorf (pop. summer 6, winter 0), where he purchased only powder, books and Darjeeling tea, he panned gold. 