The ''Outlawed'' Weapons a Mountain Man Never Took Off His Belt

Survive like a Mountain Man: https://mountainmansurvival.netlify.app/ Learn about the history of outlawed mountain man weapons and the 19th century concealed carry laws that banned them. We look at the specific statutes from the 1830s to the 1870s that targeted the Bowie knife, dirks, and pocket pistols across the American frontier. If you want to see the forgotten history of the frontier and the tools the old hands relied on, subscribe to the channel. Tell me down in the comments if you knew these common knives were once carrying a hundred dollar tax, because those old laws tell us a lot about what the government feared most. Carry short and carry sure.

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