{"id":5011,"date":"2019-02-24T18:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T00:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2019-02-24T18:36:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T00:36:43","slug":"primal-pursuit-kalispell-teen-pursues-mountain-man-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/primal-pursuit-kalispell-teen-pursues-mountain-man-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Primal pursuit Kalispell teen pursues mountain-man lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean McQueen is cut from different cloth.<\/p>\n<p>The Kalispell 19-year-old appears like many his age. He has a cellphone, he is in college and he drives a 1994 Ford F150 pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>But his path has forks that many his age do not share.<\/p>\n<p>Since the somewhat tender age of 10, McQueen has passionately pursued the mountain man lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>He has caught beaver with traps he\u2019s built, floated the Upper Missouri River in a buffalo-hide canoe he constructed, killed deer with a cap-lock rifle and skinned them with knives he has made. McQueen has also fashioned clothing from raw materials such as deer and buffalo hides.<\/p>\n<p>McQueen and his family, which includes five sisters and one brother, are from Missoula. They spent a few years in Missouri before coming to the Flathead Valley a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI joined the local rock club (Northwest Montana Rock Chucks) because I was a flintknapper,\u201d McQueen said. \u201cI met Rich Petterson there and he introduced me to the Flathead Muzzleloaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flintknapping is the process of chipping away material from high silica stones such as \u201cflint\u201d in a controlled manner with special tools to produce sharp projectile points or tools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brother tanned deer hides and I learned how to flintknap from watching YouTube videos,\u201d McQueen said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyinterlake.com\/montana_life\/20190224\/primal_pursuitkalispell_teen_pursues_mountain-man_lifestyle\">Primal pursuit Kalispell teen pursues mountain-man lifestyle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5012 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2026\/03\/Untitled-5-600x149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"149\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean McQueen is cut from different cloth. The Kalispell 19-year-old appears like many his age. He has a cellphone, he is in college and he drives a 1994 Ford F150 pickup truck. But his path has forks that many his age do not share. Since the somewhat tender age of 10, McQueen has passionately pursued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":5012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hunting","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5013,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions\/5013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}