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hist_text-digest      Thursday, December 14 2000      Volume 01 : Number 692



In this issue:

-áááááá MtMan-List: Question about camping with period gear in modern setting?
-áááááá Re: MtMan-List: A great man passes
-áááááá MtMan-List: Question about camping with period gear in modern setting?
-áááááá MtMan-List: Re: Guns in Yellowstone
-áááááá MtMan-List: Muskrat news item

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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:02:49 -0600
From: "Best, Dianne" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MtMan-List: Question about camping with period gear in modern setting?

My best friend and I toured extensively through North and South Dakota 7
years ago. My rig is a Jeep YJ with a light-weight long-tongued trailer
(home-made) with a lockable box on each side (for storage) and the poles for
my 14 foot tipi go down the centre. We camped in a few public campgrounds
(when we weren't camping on Reserves) and we never had a problem.

As suggested, valuable should not be left in a tent (I stored mine in the
lockable boxes on the trailer) but no one even touched the tipi. The only
possible down side was the crowds that would follow us to our camp site to
watch the tipi go up (better to have this down pat before you do it in front
of a crowd) and the number of strangers that would come visiting. People
were very respectful and genuinely interested. (I was surprised by the
number of people who saw the long-tongued trailer in Sioux country and
immediately knew it was for a tipi!) Primitive camping in public is good, if
you don't mind company!

(P.S. we spent part of that trip dodging tornadoes, fierce winds, hail
falling in chunks the size of apples, incredible down-pours and the tipi
went through some of the worst weather I have ever encountered. We were
snug, warm, dry, and well-fed while modern tents were blown away into the
lake and other people sat and huddled in the cold and dark. Damn I love my
tipi!)

Jin-o-ta-ka (Dianne)


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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:01:01 -0800
From: Randal J Bublitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: A great man passes

C Kent,   I have read where Joe Meek talked about getting ready for the
spring hunt.  They cut off the bottoms of their pant legs , and sewed on
wool blanketing...for the reason of continous dunkings, ease of drying.
Also wool retains much of its "R" value when wet.   hardtack

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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:38:59 -0700
From: "Wynn & Gretchen Ormond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MtMan-List: Question about camping with period gear in modern setting?

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Since the subject of Yellowstone was brought up I thought it might be =
interesting to read from one of its earlier visiters. =20



We found the springs situated in the middle of a small shallow stream, =
in the open level prairie. Rising from the middle of the brook, were =
seen seven or eight semi globular mounds self-formed by continual =
deposites of a calcarious nature, which time had hardened to the =
consistency of rock. Some of them were thirty or forty feet in =
circumference at the base, and seven or eight feet high. Each of them =
had one or more small apertures (similar in appearance to the mouth of a =
jug) out of which the water boils continually, and these generally, =
though not invariably, at the top of the mound. The water that boils =
over, deposits continually a greenish, slimy, foeted cement, externally =
about the orifices, by constant accretions of which, the mounds are =
formed. The water in these springs was so hot, that we could not bear =
our fingers in it a moment, and a dense suffocating sulphurous vapour is =
constantly rising from them. In the bases of the mounds, there were also =
occasional cavities from which vapour or boiling water was continually =
emitted. Some of the mounds have long since exploded, and been left dry =
by the water. They were hollow, and filled with shelving cavities not =
unlike honey-comb. These singular springs are known to the Rocky =
Mountain hunters by the name of the Boiling Kettles, and are justly =
regarded as great curiosities. After spending a couple of hours very =
agreeably in examining these remarkable fountains, we returned to camp, =
well satisfied for the fatigue of thirty miles' travel, by the =
opportunity we had enjoyed of perusing one of the most interesting pages =
of the great book of nature. A fair day and a beautiful prospect, =
enhanced the pleasure and reward of our excursion.

Ferris; Chapter 10=20



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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:37:55 -0600
From: "Douglas Hepner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MtMan-List: Re: Guns in Yellowstone

Actually guns are allowed in Yellowstone National Park according to the
parks own brochure. It states that firearms may be taken or transported thru
the park by unloading or disassembling the firearm so that it is inoperable
and all ammo is carried in a seperate compartment from the firearm.

YMOS
"Watchum Possum"
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Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Question about camping with period gear in modern
setting?


> > One tip, though,  I don't leave very expensive things in or around my
tent
> > when leaving for the day.  My precious semi-custom flintlock goes with
me.
>
> Louis,
> I think she said she was going to Yellowstone.  Perhaps the thought of
> carrying a firearm into said park should be addressed.  Good way to end up
in
> jail with a felony conviction hanging over your head and all your gear
> confiscated.  I don't know about other national parks, but guns ain't
allowed
> in Yellowstone.
>
> Dave Kanger
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 23:55:09 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Jon Marinetti)
Subject: MtMan-List: Muskrat news item

Detroit News [AP], Thurs. 12-14-2K, p.12D.

BAY CITY - Muskrat Club members love the rodent.  Especially fried.
"The taste of (fried muskrat) meat is a lot like chicken, or the best
roast beef you can eat," said club President Joe Perreault.
The 30-year-old club goes thru between 300 and 400 muskrats a year,
buying them thru area trappers and cookng them for meetings, held the
first Sunday of every month.
[jdm note: Muskrat season is currently in progress in all 3 Michigan
zones thru Jan.31st.]

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from Michigan
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