Menasha Ridge Press Backwoodsman Skills & Stories 6-Book Collection: Master Backwoods Know-How and Explore the Mysteries of the Wild (The Backwoodsman Book Series)

This box set brings together six rugged books from The Backwoodsman Book Series, combining timeless outdoor skills, self-reliance, and strange encounters in the wild. The collection includes: The Backwoodsman Cookbook—Prepare 125 traditional recipes using wild game, basic staples, and open-flame cooking. The Backwoodsman: Bushcraft—Learn to create tools, clothing, watercraft, hunting equipment, and more. The Backwoodsman: Encounters—Explore 23 articles about reportedly true experiences involving Bigfoot, ghosts, and UFOs. The Backwoodsman: Fire—Discover fire-making methods, emergency techniques, and ingenious wilderness cookers. The Backwoodsman: Primitive Camping—Develop practical skills for shelters, camp setup, cooking, tools, and comfort. The Backwoodsman: Shelters—Build emergency, temporary, and permanent shelters using natural and repurposed materials. For more than four decades, The Backwoodsman magazine preserved the Old Ways of Living through articles written by experienced outdoorspeople and seasoned craftspeople. This six-book collection gathers practical instructions, illustrated projects, traditional techniques, and memorable stories for readers who value ingenuity, independence, and life close to nature. Learn how to build useful equipment from simple materials, create fire in difficult conditions, establish a comfortable primitive camp, and construct shelters for a variety of situations. Prepare hearty meals over an open flame, preserve food through drying and pickling, and make the most of wild game and everyday ingredients. Then venture into the unexplained through grounded accounts and thoughtful reflections about Sasquatch, paranormal activity, UFOs, and other mysteries reported by people familiar with remote places. Created for campers, hunters, bushcrafters, survivalists, and curious outdoor readers, The Backwoodsman Skills & Stories 6-Book Collection celebrates traditional know-how, self-reliance, and the strange encounters that linger beyond the edge of the firelight.