From: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com (hist_text-digest) To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #1156 Reply-To: hist_text Sender: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk hist_text-digest Sunday, February 23 2003 Volume 01 : Number 1156 In this issue: -       Re: MtMan-List: MT Man List: gage d'amour's -       MtMan-List: Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:43:24 -0600 -       MtMan-List: Buffalo hunting on the northern Plains ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:52:40 -0800 From: Alan Avery Subject: Re: MtMan-List: MT Man List: gage d'amour's "...I do want to ask you if you know much about the gage d'amour's the trappers carried thier pipes in..." I have one that a friend made for me years ago. It is a heart-shaped bag with an open top, into which fits a small draw-string bag to carry prepared, (i.e. chopped up) tobacco in. The front of the "heart" has slits in it to carry a pipe in. Mine is soft leather, with fringe on the bottom, which is beaded with white heart beads. I rubbed mink oil into the leather for waterproofing purposes. I think a quilled one would look real nice. How about posting a picture when it's done? Black Knife aka Alan - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:43:47 -0700 From: "Lanney Ratcliff" Subject: MtMan-List: Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:43:24 -0600 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0041_01C2D9C8.59E7DF50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Today I received an email from Clint Oak's address warning of a nasty = virus and included directions to rid your computer of it. IT'S A HOAX = http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jdbgmgr.exe.file.hoax.html = Do not delete the exe file specified from your computer as the = directions tell you. Lanney Ratcliff lanneyratcliff@charter.net ______________________________________________________________ Aux Aliments du Pays - ------=_NextPart_000_0041_01C2D9C8.59E7DF50 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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- ------=_NextPart_000_0041_01C2D9C8.59E7DF50-- - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 00:15:21 -0700 (MST) From: Subject: MtMan-List: Buffalo hunting on the northern Plains Dear List, I think it was Mark who posted the story of his fine bison hunt awhile back. It made me think of this journal entry but it took me this long to remember where I saw it. This is from John James Audubon journal. I got this from the fine book "Exploring the Northern Plains 1804-1876" edited by Lloyd McFarling It is under the chapter entitled "Buffalo Hunting at Fort Union" chapter 17 August 10, 1843 Thursday, When the wind is high and the Buffaloes run toward it, the hunter's guns very often snap, and it is during their exertions to replenish their pans, that the powder flies and sticks to the moisture every moment accumulating on their faces; but nothing stops these daring and usually powerful men, who the moment the chase is ended, leap from their horses, let them graze, and begin their butcher-like work. Although I have said much about Buffalo running and butchering in general, I have not given the particular manner in which the later is performed by the hunters of this country,- I mean the white hunters,-and I will now try to do so. The moment that the buffalo is dead, three or four hunters, their faces and hands often covered with gunpowder, and with pipes lighted, place the animal on its belly, and by drawing out each fore and hind leg, fix the body so it cannot fall down again; an incision is made near the root of the tail, immediately above the root in fact, and the skin cut to the neck, and taken off in the roughest manner imaginable, downwards and on both sides at the same time. The knives are going in all directions, and many wounds occur to the hands and fingers, but are rarely attended to at this time. The pipe of one man has perhaps given out, and with his bloody hands he takes the one of his nearest companion, who has his own hands equally bloody. Now one breaks the skull of the bull, and with bloody fingers draws out the hot brains and swallows them with peculiar zest; another has now reached the liver, and is gobbling down enormous pieces of it; whilst, perhaps a third, who has come to the paunch, is feeding luxuriously on some-to me-disgusting-looking offal. But the main business proceeds. The flesh is taken off from the sides of the boss, or hump bones, from where these bones begin to the very neck, the hump itself is thus destroyed. The hunters give the name of "hump" to the mere bones when slightly covered by flesh; and it is cooked, and very good when fat, young, and well broiled. The pieces of flesh taken from the sides of these bones are called filets, and are the best portion of the animal when properly cooked. The fore-quarters, or shoulders, are taken off, as well as the hind ones, and the sides, covered by a thin portion of flesh called the depouille, are taken out. Then the ribs are broken off at the vertebrae, as well as the boss bones. The marrow-bones, which are those of the fore and hind legs only, are cut out last. The feet usually remain attached to these; the paunch is stripped of its covering of layers of fat, the head and backbone are left to the Wolves, the pipes are all emptied, the hands, faces, and clothes all bloody, and now a glass of grog is often enjoyed, as the stripping off the skins and flesh of three or four animals is truly very hard work. In some cases when no water was near, our supper was cooked without our being washed, and it was not until we had travelled several miles the next morning that we had any opportunity of cleaning ourselves; and yet, despite everything, we are all hungry, eat heartily, and sleep soundly. Now that is a buffalo hunt! - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ End of hist_text-digest V1 #1156 ******************************** - To unsubscribe to hist_text-digest, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe hist_text-digest" in the body of the message.