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To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com
Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #247
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hist_text-digest Monday, March 1 1999 Volume 01 : Number 247
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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 15:26:08 -0700
From: agottfre@telusplanet.net (Angela Gottfred)
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: York boat bill of lading
I'm no expert on York boats; what I know I've just picked up in passing. To
read about the origin of York boats, I recommend the introduction to
_Saskatchewan Journals_ by Alice M. Johnson (Hudson's Bay Record Society,
1962?). Lower Fort Garry (Selkirk Manitoba, 30 km north of Winnipeg) and
Heritage Park (Calgary) have original York boats on display. Fort Edmonton
Park (Edmonton) has a reproduction York boat, which they used to travel from
Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site to Fort Edmonton Park, to
commemorate the 1795 establishment of Edmonton House. Vol. VII of Northwest
Journal featured the journal of one of the participants in this reenactment.
Fort Edmonton Park's York boat reproduction is old & in need of replacement;
they are currently soliciting donations for this project.
Fort Edmonton Park has a web site with an excellent introduction to the
c.1846 fur trade of the HBC; it includes a short section on York boats.
Check out: www.gov.edmonton.ab.ca/parkrec/fort/tocs/1846-toc.html
Norway House Cree Nation (Norway House, Manitoba) features York boat races
every summer. I'd love to go & watch some summer--it sounds pretty exciting.
Check it out at: www.norwayhouse.mb.ca/yorkboat/index.html
And the next issue of Northwest Journal will feature a well-researched
article on the early (c.1795-1820) history of the York boat by Thomas Swan.
Your humble & obedient servant,
Angela Gottfred
Editor, Northwest Journal
agottfre@telusplanet.net
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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:34:06 -0600
From: "Douglas Hepner" <dullhawk@texomaonline.com>
Subject: MtMan-List: blanket hat/hood
Does anyone have a pattern or instructions or anything that would be
useful in the construction of a blanket hat/hood as seen in the A.J. Miller
painting and sketches?
Thanks for any help.
YMOS
"Dull Hawk"
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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:55:49 EST
From: Michae1597@aol.com
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: blanket hat/hood
I made one many years back using the mountain man sketchbook don't know which
one as there out on loan probably never to be returned ... mic
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:06:31 -0800
From: Laurel huber <huberfam@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: blanket hat/hood
"The Mountain's Sketchbook-Vol. #1, Page #7". This book has a workable patten
and instructions enough to make the item you want. I've made two from this
basic pattern.
Larry Huber
"Shoots-the-Prairie"
Douglas Hepner wrote:
> Does anyone have a pattern or instructions or anything that would be
> useful in the construction of a blanket hat/hood as seen in the A.J. Miller
> painting and sketches?
> Thanks for any help.
>
> YMOS
> "Dull Hawk"
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:06:31 -0800
From: Laurel huber <huberfam@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: blanket hat/hood
"The Mountain's Sketchbook-Vol. #1, Page #7". This book has a workable patten
and instructions enough to make the item you want. I've made two from this
basic pattern.
Larry Huber
"Shoots-the-Prairie"
Douglas Hepner wrote:
> Does anyone have a pattern or instructions or anything that would be
> useful in the construction of a blanket hat/hood as seen in the A.J. Miller
> painting and sketches?
> Thanks for any help.
>
> YMOS
> "Dull Hawk"
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:47:17 -0800
From: JW Stephens <lray@mindspring.com>
Subject: MtMan-List: Fishing in the mountains
I'm interested in persuing any leads regarding documentation of fur-trade era
mountaineers and trout fishing either for sustenance or recreation during the
times when beaver weren't being trapped.
Since trappers were in the water a lot they must have seen the abundance of
fish in beaver ponds and the waters that beaver frequent. Surely trout were not
like the European honey bee, making its way across the continent just in
advance of the westering nation, but a native population, established and in
balance like the buffalo and forest primeval. Yet in my reading this winter
(Osborne Russell, Hafen, Morgan, Bil Gilbert, Lewis Garrard and others) I have
found many lean times around quality waters. What, were these guys too stupid
to know how to catch and eat fish? I am puzzled ...
No doubt there were forms of catching fish that many would avoid as unsuitable
"recreation" but though I have seen many references to natives fishing with
weir and spear, why have I not seen reference to the hungry trapper, cached in
Blackfeet country, not wanting to shoot at game for fear of drawing unwelcome
company, filling his meatbag with the produce of stream and pond? And how about
during rendezvous, and for that matter, how about in tribal camps?
Any help solving this mystery for me will be appreciated.
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