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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:53:59 EDT
From: SWcushing@aol.com
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Gone to the Mountains
In a message dated 4/6/01 8:30:41 AM, rtlahti@email.msn.com writes:
<< Wish us well and a safe journey. I will report back to you upon our safe
arrival back at this post in the hopefully not too distant future. I
remain.....
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You boys have great fun! Had I known that Frog was going under, I'd have
changed my schedule to lead a party upriver to meet you. Oh despair......
Ymos,
Magpie
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 19:40:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Buck Conner <buck_conner@email.com>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Leather Breaches & Period Eye Glasses
From: CTOAKES@aol.com
To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com
Sent: April 5, 2001 8:22:19 PM GMT
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Leather Breaches
But from the early colonial days thru the 1700 riding breechs were leather usually buff color (off white to light tan). Somewhere I have documentation of George Washington'w deershin breeches but I can not lay my hands on it at the moment. As my wife and I ride horses and do Eastern F&I and Rev War and Long Hunter I am currently on a mission to get enough matched bark tanned deer shins to have a proper set of leather button fly (French Fly) 1750's
breeches made.
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Mr. Oaks I have a pair of buff color (off white) breeches that are believed to have belonged to Marino Medina and last worn by his son Louis Papa at the turn of the century or right after it from newspaper photos of him riding his white horse and wearing the breeches at a Loveland Colo. parade in the early 1900's.
Medina was very proud of his commerical tanned coat and breeches that where manufactured in a factory in St Louis MO or possibly CA from what Charley Hanson figured.
So if your doing fur trade period, breeches would fit right in, for years we always figured this covering was much earlier and not proper.
Thanks for your time, take care.
Buck Conner
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 20:50:33 EDT
From: LivingInThePast@aol.com
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: medalions
In a message dated 4/4/01 4:15:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
jbrandl@wyoming.com writes:
<< a source to produce medallions >>
Joe, Try Joann Ford, P.O.Box 325, Red Lodge, Montana (406) 446-1307. She
produces the medallions for a both the Laguna and Manzanita Rendezvous events
here in So. Cal, and they are truly collectibles. Hope this is of some help.
Barney
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