Settlers Couldn't Believe Frontiersmen Drank Buffalo Stomach Fluid to Survive

Summer 1839. When Philadelphia merchant Thomas Morrison arrived at Fort William, he watched a French mountain man drink something from a buffalo bladder that looked like thick soup. It was called "bilters" - buffalo bile mixed with water.
Settlers back East couldn't believe the stories. Frontiersmen drinking buffalo stomach fluid? Heart blood? Bladder contents? It seemed impossible, barbaric, made-up tales to shock civilized people.
But it was all true. This is the documented story of how mountain men and Plains Indians used every drinkable fluid inside buffalo to survive the harsh frontier - from bile mixtures that prevented alkali poisoning, to stomach contents that provided hydration when water sources ran dry.
Based on the actual journals of Thomas Morrison and accounts from legendary mountain men like Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, and Thomas Fitzpatrick. Real frontier survival that seemed too extreme to believe.

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