Not sure of your location - my favorite vendor is a fella out of Oregon
called Otter who makes all manner of glasses, clear and colored. He
doesn't do mail order, however. He's a substantial vendor, and does all
the western gunshows of any size. His stock is generally Colonial era.
The store is just called "Otter's".
For mail order, Jas. Townsend carries pretty much the same stock, if for
a slightly higher price.
http://www.jastown.com/
Despite their being of a later time period (my best info claims early
20th century), I myself wear the curved earpiece oval-lensed glasses
with the smoked lenses. I found the lenses to be the largest I could
get in this genre, and I need the protection (I have a vision problem).
The curved earpieces are not obvious, and are well covered by hair or
kerchief. I took them to my optometry shop and they fitted them for no
charge. I chose the smoked lenses because I got tired of the syphilis
comments that the green lenses immediately sparked. By the way,
sunglasses were a prescribed item for all manner of ills, especially
megrim (headache). They came in all colors. Please do help dispel the
syphilis myth when you can.
Good luck on your quest!
YMDS,
Tassee
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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 01:10:21 EDT
From: WSmith4100@aol.com
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Need Info on Museums in WY, MT, CO
Lee,
Another nice museum is the one in Lander,Wy. I was through there in the
summer of 1987. I thought it was really interesting. The most memorable
exhibit, was a stuffed grizzly bear that had been killed by a single shot
from a .22. I hope you can make it to see it
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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 06:13:08 +0000
From: Laura Rugel Glise <lglise@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: New Book
7:00 a.m. EST
Michael Terry was the guest speaker two years ago in Pinedale, Wyoming.
The Pinedale Museum and the Wyoming Humanities Council hired him in
conjunction with their annual Rendezvous reenactment. He was
fascinating. People of all ages and backgrounds sat for up to two hours
at a time listening to him.
He dropped out of high school and lived in a tipi for a couple of years
and studied; teaching himself the craftsmanship and skills of many of
the plains Indian tribes. He was a consultant on Dances with Wolves,
and was constantly criticizing the inaccuracies. He was repeatedly
told, "Michael, we are making entertainment here, not a documentary."
If you have the book for sale, save a copy for me. I'm stopping in on
Monday, June 28 when I come to Wyoming. Look forward to meeting you.
Still have any of those lodge-quality buffalo hides available?
Laura Glise
Atlanta
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Date: 4 Jun 1999 11:00:43 -0700
From: <buck.conner@uswestmail.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: New Book
At Dances with Wolves, Michael Terry was wanting things that were not in the the script or within the available funding, he was told this several times by different directors. I have several friends that produced many of the items of the Native American's wardrobe for and at that movie.
When the actors are rolling around in the grass or crawing in the mud you don't use real good quality quill or beadwork, from the camera angle and distance the Honk Kong stuff works fine. What some folks have to realize is the mighty dollar plays a big role in Hollywood.
At the Mountain Men, Drums Along the Platte, Centennial, Black Robe and a few "B" rated movies, as well as TV specials that we have been in; makeup people as well as special clothing people will try and change your personal clothing to meet what their paperwork says you should look like. I have seen makeup try and put Tandy Leather dye on brain-tanned shirts and leggings, not knowing what the cost would be in wrecking these items. They seem to want to make everyone look dirty even at rendezvous, Jerry Crandall (historical research, commerical artists, etc.) talked until blue in the face about being wrong, he got no where, as others have found.
Buck Conner
___________________________
> On Thu, 03 June 1999, Laura Rugel Glise wrote:
>
> 7:00 a.m. EST
>
> Michael Terry was the guest speaker two years ago in Pinedale, Wyoming.
> The Pinedale Museum and the Wyoming Humanities Council hired him in
> conjunction with their annual Rendezvous reenactment. He was
> fascinating. People of all ages and backgrounds sat for up to two hours
> at a time listening to him.
>
> He dropped out of high school and lived in a tipi for a couple of years
> and studied; teaching himself the craftsmanship and skills of many of
> the plains Indian tribes. He was a consultant on Dances with Wolves,
> and was constantly criticizing the inaccuracies. He was repeatedly
> told, "Michael, we are making entertainment here, not a documentary."
>
> If you have the book for sale, save a copy for me. I'm stopping in on
> Monday, June 28 when I come to Wyoming. Look forward to meeting you.
> Still have any of those lodge-quality buffalo hides available?
>
> Laura Glise
> Atlanta
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Date: 4 Jun 1999 13:13:00 -0700
From: <turtle@uswestmail.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: New Book
I worked a few days at this flick, saw Terry in a lather for no reason.
> At Dances with Wolves, Michael Terry was wanting things that were not in the the script or within the available funding................
You don't use your rendezvous clothes to do this in.
> When the actors are rolling around in the grass or crawing in the mud you don't use real good quality quill or beadwork, ..........................
At "Drums Along the Platte" as a background actors we were dusted after Crandall raised hell about a few having leather dye put on personal clothing.
> At the Mountain Men, Drums Along the Platte, Centennial, Black Robe .............
Turtle
> ___________________________
>
> > On Thu, 03 June 1999, Laura Rugel Glise wrote:
> >
> > 7:00 a.m. EST
> >
> > Michael Terry was the guest speaker two years ago in Pinedale, Wyoming.
> > The Pinedale Museum and the Wyoming Humanities Council hired him in
> > conjunction with their annual Rendezvous reenactment. He was
> > fascinating...............
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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 23:23:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lee Newbill <lnewbill@uidaho.edu>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Need Info on Museums in WY, MT, CO
Hallo the Camp Again.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the suggestions on spots of interest.
Don't know how my teenagers are gonna like this educational vacation, but
I'm gonna have a good time hitting as many of the sites put out on this
list as possible.
Regards
Lee Newbill of Viola, Idaho
NMLRA member 058863
email at lnewbill@uidaho.edu
Keeper of the "Buckskins & Blackpowder!" Webpage
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7186
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