“I need to pull Jude out and start a new club. Something along the lines of mountain man stuff. Learn actual survival techniques and stuff like that. Scouts is boring. Boys need to learn how to kill a bear with a Bowie knife.”
– JC, 7/18/2020
The Green River Boys is a Christian values-based, decentralized outdoor skills group. It is based on the idea that the height of American wilderness skill, self-reliance, independence and know-how came from the “mountain man” period of the early 1800s. The goal is to train and teach young woodsmen and woods-women in the ways of mountain man skills and early Americana.
The Green River Boys is an apolitical association, and the specific details of how a Party is run, is based on the vagaries of that Party leadership. Differences of opinion at the Party level will occur and individuals are encouraged to use the open-source model to break-off and form their own party of The Green River Boys.
What’s in a Name?
The Green River Boys name comes from the Green River in Wyoming, the site of the first mountain man rendezvous in 1825. Anything of top quality was referred to as being “up to Green River,” hence the tongue-in-cheek reference for The Green River Boys.
Open Source
The documentation and details of The Green River Boys are offered free-of-charge without copyright restriction to anyone of sound moral character and bearing to form their own mountain man-based skills group.
The creators assume no liability for issues or malfeasances arising from misuse of these materials, or the dangers native to any type of wilderness skills work in an outdoors environment.
Anyone who wishes to proceed, does so at his own risk.