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Speaker discusses being 'a big fan of the book Life and Death at the Mouth of the Muscleshell,' describing it as a journal of a man at the mouth of where the Muscleshell flows into the Missouri. He discusses the extensive bloodshed documented in the book, with detailed statistics of deaths (1,474 wolves, 468 antelope, 128 buffalo, 121 Indians, 34 whites, etc.) that an audience member tracked in a spreadsheet after reading it.

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Steve references this book, describing it as 'a guy's journal' about a wolfer operating at the mouth of the Muscle Shell River where it flows into the Missouri. He quotes specific passages about the wolfer checking bait stations and returning with forty wolves, and an incident involving a tribal representative complaining about losing twenty-four dogs to strychnine baits.

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Speaker describes this as their 'new favorite book' and explains how someone used it to solve a 15-year mystery about an unexplained tombstone found along the Muscle Shell River in Montana. The book provided a thorough explanation of what happened to a person named Constant Cassnell (or Quesnell) who was killed in a conflict involving arrows.

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A published historical journal that Steve Rinella has been discussing, consisting of daily accounts from someone who spent years at the mouth of the Muscle Shell River in Montana. A historian collected, published, and provided commentary on the journal, including trying to corroborate the existence of individuals mentioned in the entries.

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Steve Rinella mentions reading this book recently while discussing firearms accidents in historical times. He notes that people in earlier eras seemed to have more shooting accidents and were 'just trying to figure stuff out,' citing examples from this book about incidents at the Mouth of the Muscle Shell.