The Pauite Deadfall: Hunter Gatherer, #1

By Kyle Thomson

About The Book

 The paiute deadfall was invented a long time ago by the Paiute tribe. The tribe inhabited the southwest area of Utah and Arizona and even still lives there today. Used for centuries, Its main use was to catch small animals such as pack rats, ground squirrels, birds or chipmunks. This book will take you step by step, from learning how to build the trap with natural materials to setting it to catch food! Learn the skills that kept our ancestors alive through the Ebook mini series of wilderness skills from Owner and Instructor at Wilderness Wild Survival School - Kyle Thomson.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilderness Wild Survival School
• Release date: Nov 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223092636

Kyle Thomson

 Kyle is the owner of Wilderness Wild Survival School LLC and a fulltime wilderness skills instructor. He lives in Utah where he travels around the state teaching wilderness living skills and primitive survival skills.   He has spent the last two decades learning and teaching wilderness survival, bushcraft, and primitive living skills.   In that time Kyle has also lived for long periods of time in the wilderness using the skills he teaches and devoting his time to become proficient in each skill.   Teaching has been a passion of his since he was young. In his teen years Kyle would teach survival basics to the BSA and run local survival classes for other teens.   Wilderness living skills is more than a skillset to Kyle, It's a way of life and something he's passionate about sharing with everyone!  Kyle isn't a purest in primitive skills. He doesn't believe in living primitively, but he believes that all these skills have a place in today's world for those wishing to be more self-reliant. He believes in using certain modern items that are what he calls "modern counterparts" to the old way of doing things.  Today you will find Kyle out in the wild alone or with his family practicing and living the skills he teaches. He truly has a passion for the wild places and self reliance living.

Book preview

Foreword By Kyle Thomson

Into a potential campsite I walked. Looking around I took notice of squirrel signs nearby. These feeding spots I would come back to later this evening and place the 17 Paiute deadfalls that I kept wrapped in leather at the bottom of my buckskin satchel...

I was tying the top strap down onto my willow pack frame to hold my blanket pack in place.  The morning was cool, but the storm clouds rolling in told me there would be precipitation later on. It was day 2 in the rockies and I had come 5 miles from my last camp.

All I had eaten were 2 handfuls of service berries and some roasted burdock root. It made a good snack, but the root took a lot of energy to dig out of the ground. Today