Resolved by a group of true buckskinners to form a trapping party based upon their hereditary rights as Free Men and Women; to promote the use and expertise of muzzle loading firearms and the associated tools that were necessary for the survival of our forefathers, who lived and died in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains and braved the danger of The Great Plains during the period of the fur trade. It shall be our objective and primary function to revive and live by those standards of personal integrity, respect, honesty, good fellowship, self-discipline, team play, and self-reliance which were mandatory to the free trapper, whose slightest indiscretion led to quick and severe retribution.
In keeping with the above, rules of the trapping party are two by number:
Good manners and common sense
The “Anasazi Free-Trappers” is a family oriented organization, where a person of good moral fiber, by dint of hard work, may attain a position of honor and equality with, and acceptance by his/her peers.