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hist_text-digest        Friday, March 21 2003        Volume 01 : Number 1167



In this issue:

-       Re: MtMan-List: Hello to the List. (Chairs)
-       MtMan-List: chairs
-       Re: MtMan-List: chairs
-       MtMan-List: chairs
-       MtMan-List: Spring Trapping Season Commencement
-       MtMan-List: feeling bad, looking good????
-       Re: MtMan-List: Spring Trapping Season Commencement
-       Re: MtMan-List: Hello to the List. (Chairs)
-       MtMan-List: Fw: AMM-List: feeling bad, looking good???
-       Re: MtMan-List: feeling bad, looking good????
-       Re: MtMan-List: feeling bad, looking good????
-       Re: MtMan-List: feeling bad, looking good????
-       Re: MtMan-List: Spring Trapping Season Commencement
-       MtMan-List: feeling bad, looking good
-       Re: MtMan-List: feeling bad, looking good????
-       Re: MtMan-List:Speaking of Hugh Glass 
-       Re: MtMan-List:Speaking of Hugh Glass 

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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:32:53 -0700
From: Mike Moore <amm1616@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Hello to the List. (Chairs)

    I would agree with Tom and John (Hi, guys!) As a young pilgrim,
I asked Leighton Baker about what he considered to be the biggest
mistake "greenhorns", like myself make when setting up camps. He 
said "Chairs". 
    Chairs were found in the west, were very rare. The forts seems
like used benches at the tables, and I can't recall any mention of
them by tourists- except for Susan Magoffin. Here is what she says
about her camp and her chairs:
  "Twas made in Philadelphia by a regular tent maker of the army, and 
everything is complete. It is a conical shape, with a ironpole and 
wooden ball; we hvae a table in it that is fastened to the dressing 
bureau- it holds our glasses, combs & c. Our bed is as good as many 
houses have; sheets, blankets, counterpanes, pillows & c. We have a 
carpet made of sail duck, have portable stools, they are called; they 
are two legs crossed with a pin through the center on which they turn 
as a pivot; the seat is made of carpeting. To be brief, the whole is a 
complete affair."

    Well, Susan's camp is not the norm for life in the west. But she 
also had servant too!
                      mike.
    


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From: Tom Roberts <troberts2@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2003 6:13 pm
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Hello to the List. (Chairs)

> A stump?  (portability being inverse to size <G>)
> 
> More seriously, as John pointed out, there's not much in the way
> of portable chairs being recorded as having been part of RMFT.
> 
> There's lot's of portable chairs that can be made, depending on where
> your desire for accuracy lies.  I've seen several who have made a
> wooden frame backpack rack that doubles as a sturdy seat and I 
> admire them for their dual purpose but are they historical?  I'm not
> sure.  Pehaps someone who uses one of these might comment.
> 
> The only one I'm fairly confident is accurate for the timeframe, 
> but not
> necessarily for the user, is the native seat (actually more of a 
> backrest)constructed of willow shafts of increasing length which 
> are sewn together
> forming a rollup mat. At the (narrow) top is a hoop which connects 
> to a
> tripod of sticks.  They're surely called something specific and I 
> don't know
> the name.  They're quite comfortable and certainly portable but 
again,
> depending on your intent, may or may not be accurate.  Linda 
> Holley if you're
> online can you add to this meager description?
> 
> And by the way, welcome to the list.  We would be honored if you 
> would introduce
> youself, tell us where you're camped, and a little bit of your story.
> 
> Tom
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:23:04 -0600
From: "James MacKannai" <mackannai@hotmail.com>
Subject: MtMan-List: chairs

    I would agree with Tom and John (Hi, guys!) As a young pilgrim,
I asked Leighton Baker about what he considered to be the biggest
mistake "greenhorns", like myself make when setting up camps. He
said "Chairs".
_________________________________

The Indians used the willow back rests and probably some trappers in winter 
camp. I think it is best to find out what sort of transport you would be 
using. 20 carts supplied the 1838 rendezvous and wooden chests are often 
associated with carts. A chest can be a back rest or a seat. The packs used 
on pack horses can be stacked to provide a seat and back rest and will be 
useful to pack gear to rendezvous. Even if you don't have a horse you can 
represent a trapper at rendezvous with apishamores (saddle robe) for a soft 
seat on the ground and a saddle or pack saddle to lean into. There must be 
many more ways to arrange gear carried by pack animals into seating and 
other camp furniture. This is an interesting subject and may change the look 
of rendezvous if we get creative about the gear actually seen with the 
mountain men of old.

Any other ideas?

Jim





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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:41:09 EST
From: SWzypher@aol.com
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: chairs

In a message dated 3/20/03 8:24:03 PM, mackannai@hotmail.com writes:

<< This is an interesting subject and may change the look of rendezvous if w=
e=20
get creative about the gear actually seen with the mountain men of old.

Any other ideas? >>

Look at the John Clymer paintings to see how camp comforts were managed. =20
There were no chairs.=A0=A0Here you are coming into dealing with reality.  E=
ven=20
if they had started out with one - they were on pack animals where precious=20
room was saved for tne necessities of existance and carrying the furs they=20
had harvested.  They even limited themselves to only six traps.  Chairs woul=
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have been treated like gas masks in world war 2 - chucked in the ditch the=20
first chance they got.
Most sincerely
Richard James

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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 20:07:31 -0800
From: "Randal Bublitz" <rjbublitz@earthlink.net>
Subject: MtMan-List: chairs

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<DIV>Check out The Book of Buckskinning ll, scurlock publishing.&nbsp; There is a chapter on camp gear, including lazy backs, furniture, etc......&nbsp; hope this helps.&nbsp; Randy</DIV>
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:40:29 -0700 (MST)
From: <beaverboy@sofast.net>
Subject: MtMan-List: Spring Trapping Season Commencement

Dear List,
        I want to be the first to wish everyone a happy spring! First day
of spring tomorrow and I laid my first beaver traps of the spring
season today! You can tell the rut is on as I saw a beaver
swimming around at 3:30 PM as I was setting traps.
        The ice was slow in going off the Sun River this year. March 13 to
be exact. In a mild winter the ice goes off by February 15, a cold
winter it goes by March 15 and in a really, really cold winter it
goes off by the first of April. True to its nature it went off
almost right on time, March 13.  The town of Fort Benton had a
major ice jam at its doorstep. The Missouri River there was jammed
all the way across and up and down river for maybe a mile in each
direction. It looked like the North Pole. The whole town was
worried about flooding but it went out last Wednesday though a lot
of bank ice is still about.
         I got 12 beaver sets out today and should do OK, lots of sign. I
will only catch 10-20 this spring, as I must pull them a little
early to go turkey hunting. Ah.... the life of a trapper!
         Spring is definitely in the air. The rooster pheasants are
sitting on their lechs or high spots starting their search for
hens. I see maybe 20-30 a day in my travels. They aren't chasing
the hens quite yet but they are definitely pre-rutting.  The
geese are pairing up and going to nest. And I actually saw a
pigeon mounting another one on an underpass! How romantic.
         I made only scent mound sets for the beaver. They will come to
just a plain mud mound this time of the year but I lured them all
with my homemade L&C beaver bate. I thought I had a fresh
unopened bottle until I opened it. It was then that I remembered
this was a half filled bottle that I topped off last fall with a
bunch of beaver sac oil! Ah.....! Talk about the smell of spring!
The smell of beaver bate brings back a lot of fond memories for
me. It doesn't take much of this magic mix to catch a love struck
beaver. A dab will do you.
         Happy spring everyone!
                      Beaverboy




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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:56:02 -0800
From: "Randal Bublitz" <rjbublitz@earthlink.net>
Subject: MtMan-List: feeling bad, looking good????

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<DIV>Brothers,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I broke my left heel a little over a week ago.&nbsp; I will be confined to crutches for 6-8 weeks.&nbsp; It is imperative that I keep my weight off of my heel (or could ruin the bone).&nbsp; I'm gonna check out thrift stores for wooden crutches, as there are a couple of doin's I'd like to participate in before I'm healed.&nbsp; I'm wearing a removable cast.&nbsp; I should keep it on, so I don't fall and reinjure, etc....&nbsp; Has anyone had a similar situation?&nbsp; Does anyone have any constructive advice as to how to hide casts, crutches, etc....&nbsp; I'm pretty creative, but am unable to do much work due to my predicament. The doc says I had better stay off it, keep it elevated, etc...&nbsp; I have a couple of ideas, but I am interested in words of experience.&nbsp; Thanks in advance.&nbsp; Yfab, Randy</DIV>
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:46:45 EST
From: SWzypher@aol.com
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Spring Trapping Season Commencement

In a message dated 3/20/03 9:43:14 PM, beaverboy@sofast.net writes:

<<  I laid my first beaver traps of the spring

season today! You can tell the rut is on as I saw a beaver

swimming around at 3:30 PM as I was setting traps. >>

Hey - what's this mountain man and trapping stuff doing on this screen??   
Don't you know this is an upper division Politics and Debate  201 and 203 
screen??  Don't you read the other messages to know the pattern?  And 
trapping . . . have you never heard of politically incorrect??

somewhat Sincerely
Richard James

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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:41:37 -0500
From: Linda Holley <tipis@attbi.com>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Hello to the List. (Chairs)

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I am on line and you have done a great job explaining the "backrest". 
 If you want to see this item, you can go to my web site at
http://www.tipis-tepees-teepees.com

There are plenty of pictures there and lots on tipis :-)

Linda Holley

Tom Roberts wrote:

> A stump?  (portability being inverse to size <G>)
>  
> More seriously, as John pointed out, there's not much in the way
> of portable chairs being recorded as having been part of RMFT.
>  
> There's lot's of portable chairs that can be made, depending on where
> your desire for accuracy lies.  I've seen several who have made a
> wooden frame backpack rack that doubles as a sturdy seat and I
> admire them for their dual purpose but are they historical?  I'm not



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I am on line and you have done a great job explaining the "backrest". &nbsp;If
you want to see this item, you can go to my web site at<br>
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There are plenty of pictures there and lots on tipis :-)<br>
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Linda Holley<br>
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 06:43:23 -0600
From: "Lanney Ratcliff" <lanneyratcliff@charter.net>
Subject: MtMan-List: Fw: AMM-List: feeling bad, looking good???

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Randy
Do anything necessary to protect your foot.  Period. I got too frisky =
with a busted ankle once upon a time and I have had problems with it =
every day since.....for forty-one years.  Just for getting off crutches =
too soon.
I can't imagine anybody giving you grief for having crutches or a cast =
at a doin's.  Go ahead and do some camo work on them if  you want but =
keep the modern cast for sure and make some replacement crutches only if =
you can make the replacements do the job perfectly and safely.  Be sure =
you bring something to sit on that is near or  equal to the height of a =
normal chair (a sturdy box with a canvas wrapped cushion on top, maybe, =
or a huge extra "bedroll"), have something that you back can rest on and =
absolutely prop up you bad leg.  Somebody will help you tote in this =
extra plunder and will be glad to do it.  Do NOT stagger around with =
some half-assed "period" crutches and flop on the ground to sit, etc, to =
preserve perfect authenticity at the cost of permanently damaging your =
foot.  Even the most hard eyed curmudgeon should understand that.  =
Anyone who doesn't is not enough of a friend or brother.
yf&b
Lanney
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  Brothers,    I broke my left heel a little over a week ago.  I will be =
confined to crutches for 6-8 weeks.  It is imperative that I keep my =
weight off of my heel (or could ruin the bone).  I'm gonna check out =
thrift stores for wooden crutches, as there are a couple of doin's I'd =
like to participate in before I'm healed.  I'm wearing a removable cast. =
 I should keep it on, so I don't fall and reinjure, etc....  Has anyone =
had a similar situation?  Does anyone have any constructive advice as to =
how to hide casts, crutches, etc....  I'm pretty creative, but am unable =
to do much work due to my predicament. The doc says I had better stay =
off it, keep it elevated, etc...  I have a couple of ideas, but I am =
interested in words of experience.  Thanks in advance.  Yfab, Randy


  Randal Bublitz
  rjbublitz@earthlink.net
  Freedom is Not Free


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giving you=20
grief for having crutches or a cast at a doin's.&nbsp; Go ahead and do =
some camo=20
work on them if&nbsp; you want but keep the modern cast for sure and =
make some=20
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near=20
or&nbsp; equal to the height of a normal chair (a sturdy box with a =
canvas=20
wrapped cushion on top, maybe, or a huge extra "bedroll"), have =
something that=20
you back can rest on and absolutely prop up you bad =
leg.&nbsp;&nbsp;Somebody=20
will help you tote in&nbsp;this extra plunder and will be&nbsp;glad to =
do=20
it.&nbsp; Do NOT stagger around with some half-assed "period" crutches =
and flop=20
on the ground to sit, etc, to preserve perfect authenticity at the cost =
of=20
permanently damaging your foot.&nbsp; Even the most hard eyed curmudgeon =
should=20
understand that.&nbsp; Anyone who doesn't is not enough of a friend or=20
brother.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D4>yf&amp;b</FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV>Brothers,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I broke my left heel a little over a =
week=20
  ago.&nbsp; I will be confined to crutches for 6-8 weeks.&nbsp; It is=20
  imperative that I keep my weight off of my heel (or could ruin the=20
  bone).&nbsp; I'm gonna check out thrift stores for wooden crutches, as =
there=20
  are a couple of doin's I'd like to participate in before I'm =
healed.&nbsp; I'm=20
  wearing a removable cast.&nbsp; I should keep it on, so I don't fall =
and=20
  reinjure, etc....&nbsp; Has anyone had a similar situation?&nbsp; Does =
anyone=20
  have any constructive advice as to how to hide casts, crutches, =
etc....&nbsp;=20
  I'm pretty creative, but am unable to do much work due to my =
predicament. The=20
  doc says I had better stay off it, keep it elevated, etc...&nbsp; I =
have a=20
  couple of ideas, but I am interested in words of experience.&nbsp; =
Thanks in=20
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:31:43 -0800
From: "Ben" <beb1@sisna.com>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: feeling bad, looking good????

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What Lanny said!!!  Anyone that makes a stink over something like that =
isn't much of a friend, or very smart for that matter. =20
Ben
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   =20
  Brothers,    I broke my left heel a little over a week ago.  I will be =
confined to crutches for 6-8 weeks.  It is imperative that I keep my =
weight off of my heel (or could ruin the bone).  I'm gonna check out =
thrift stores for wooden crutches, as there are a couple of doin's I'd =
like to participate in before I'm healed.  I'm wearing a removable cast. =
 I should keep it on, so I don't fall and reinjure, etc....  Has anyone =
had a similar situation?  Does anyone have any constructive advice as to =
how to hide casts, crutches, etc....  I'm pretty creative, but am unable =
to do much work due to my predicament. The doc says I had better stay =
off it, keep it elevated, etc...  I have a couple of ideas, but I am =
interested in words of experience.  Thanks in advance.  Yfab, Randy



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there=20
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healed.&nbsp; I'm=20
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predicament. The=20
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have a=20
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Thanks in=20
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:06:34 -0500
From: LODGEPOLE@aol.com
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: feeling bad, looking good????

Randal,

  Lanney's advice seems mighty sound to me. I'd say go ahead and look for the wooden crutches if you can find them. 

  My son broke his arm a few years ago. We went to the local Tandy at that time and bought some cheap remnant leather (can't recall if it was buckskin, but it looked like it)and cut it into 3 inch wide strips and as long as what ever the remnants were, sewed the pieces together end to end and then wrapped it around the cast till all that was visibal was the leather. Didn't look too bad. I can't imagine folks giving you too much trouble over that. If they do, well I'll keep my sentments to my self here. 

  Now on the other hand if you want to be one hundred percent "Period Correct" you could cut off your foot and carve yerself a wooden leg.

Longshot

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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:23:32 -0800
From: "Two Bears Kelsey" <tubears@charter.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: feeling bad, looking good????

  Now on the other hand if you want to be one hundred percent "Period
Correct" you could cut off your foot and carve yerself a wooden leg.

Longshot


Or you could do like old Hugh Glass and throw the cast away, tie sticks to
your leg and crawl around on your belly for a few days.  "Two Bears"


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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:09:41 -0800
From: "Lee Newbill" <bluethistle@potlatch.com>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Spring Trapping Season Commencement

Good luck Beaverboy

Don't fergit to save some of them critters for skinning demonstrations later
in the year! Hard frozen beaver skinning in August is so fun.

Didna know that beaver would come to just the mound. We're running sets on
the St Joe River (Idaho) this weekend using the bait sticks & traditional
traps, and maybe a few conibears over den entrances.

Will roast up a beaver fer supper, but no, I won't try and eat any more
beaver tail. I have deteremined through scientific experiments that the
scientific name for beaver tail is "beaverus tailus ickus" (just plain
yuck). Perhaps if I was a starving. Probably would eat okra first.

Regards

Lee Newbill of North Idaho
AMM# 1821
http://www.hogheavenmuzzleloaders.com
http://users.potlatch.com/bluethistle
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:11:53 -0600
From: "John McKee" <stitchin@sirisonline.com>
Subject: MtMan-List: feeling bad, looking good

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Brother Randy,
    Have to agree with Longshot, Lanney, Ben and the rest..... protect =
your foot! Don't let one doins screw up all the rest of them! Any =
brother that gives you grief for it isn't invited into my camp!
    If you need any scrap leather to wrap that cast up, let me know and =
a box will be in the mail today!=20
        Your friend and Brother,   John =20
P.S. How'd ya break it?


The Stitchin' Scotsman
100% Handsewn Elkhide garments
and moccasins
Manu Forti
www.stitchinscotsman.com


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   =20
  Brothers,    I broke my left heel a little over a week ago.  I will be =
confined to crutches for 6-8 weeks.  It is imperative that I keep my =
weight off of my heel (or could ruin the bone).  I'm gonna check out =
thrift stores for wooden crutches, as there are a couple of doin's I'd =
like to participate in before I'm healed.  I'm wearing a removable cast. =
 I should keep it on, so I don't fall and reinjure, etc....  Has anyone =
had a similar situation?  Does anyone have any constructive advice as to =
how to hide casts, crutches, etc....  I'm pretty creative, but am unable =
to do much work due to my predicament. The doc says I had better stay =
off it, keep it elevated, etc...  I have a couple of ideas, but I am =
interested in words of experience.  Thanks in advance.  Yfab, Randy



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  <DIV>&nbsp;=20
  <DIV>Brothers,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I broke my left heel a little over a =
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  imperative that I keep my weight off of my heel (or could ruin the=20
  bone).&nbsp; I'm gonna check out thrift stores for wooden crutches, as =
there=20
  are a couple of doin's I'd like to participate in before I'm =
healed.&nbsp; I'm=20
  wearing a removable cast.&nbsp; I should keep it on, so I don't fall =
and=20
  reinjure, etc....&nbsp; Has anyone had a similar situation?&nbsp; Does =
anyone=20
  have any constructive advice as to how to hide casts, crutches, =
etc....&nbsp;=20
  I'm pretty creative, but am unable to do much work due to my =
predicament. The=20
  doc says I had better stay off it, keep it elevated, etc...&nbsp; I =
have a=20
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:15:22 -0500
From: Linda Holley <tipis@attbi.com>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: feeling bad, looking good????

We can always bead the leg...or was that the "wood leg"?   I have the 
same problem with my cane.  I just wrapped some brain tan leather on it 
and go chugging away.  You should see me at shool with this cane.  The 
kids think I am crazy and the faculty knows I am.

Linda Holley

Two Bears Kelsey wrote:

>  Now on the other hand if you want to be one hundred percent "Period
>Correct" you could cut off your foot and carve yerself a wooden leg.
>
>Longshot
>
>
>Or you could do like old Hugh Glass and throw the cast away, tie sticks to
>your leg and crawl around on your belly for a few days.  "Two Bears"
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:03:14 -0800 (PST)
From: George Noe <gnoe39@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List:Speaking of Hugh Glass 

> >"Two Bears" said:
> >Or you could do like old Hugh Glass and throw the
> cast away, tie sticks to
> >your leg and crawl around on your belly for a few
> days.  "Two Bears"
> 
 Historical Fiction !!
Just finished Michael Punke's book.
"THE REVENANT"
 I thought it was a pretty good read !!!
 As he said "He tried to keep it period",but did add
some "Flowering"(litituray privialge) to build it up
some.
 grn

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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:07:32 -0800
From: "Two Bears Kelsey" <tubears@charter.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List:Speaking of Hugh Glass 

Historical Fiction !!
Just finished Michael Punke's book.
"THE REVENANT"
 I thought it was a pretty good read !!!
 As he said "He tried to keep it period",but did add
some "Flowering"(litituray privialge) to build it up
some.
 grn

Probably, but thought it was a bit funny !!! I also read the book and
thought it very good reading. "Two Bears"


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