From: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com (hist_text-digest) To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #247 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 Monday, March 1 1999 Volume 01 : Number 247 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 15:26:08 -0700 From: agottfre@telusplanet.net (Angela Gottfred) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: York boat bill of lading I'm no expert on York boats; what I know I've just picked up in passing. To read about the origin of York boats, I recommend the introduction to _Saskatchewan Journals_ by Alice M. Johnson (Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1962?). Lower Fort Garry (Selkirk Manitoba, 30 km north of Winnipeg) and Heritage Park (Calgary) have original York boats on display. Fort Edmonton Park (Edmonton) has a reproduction York boat, which they used to travel from Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site to Fort Edmonton Park, to commemorate the 1795 establishment of Edmonton House. Vol. VII of Northwest Journal featured the journal of one of the participants in this reenactment. Fort Edmonton Park's York boat reproduction is old & in need of replacement; they are currently soliciting donations for this project. Fort Edmonton Park has a web site with an excellent introduction to the c.1846 fur trade of the HBC; it includes a short section on York boats. Check out: www.gov.edmonton.ab.ca/parkrec/fort/tocs/1846-toc.html Norway House Cree Nation (Norway House, Manitoba) features York boat races every summer. I'd love to go & watch some summer--it sounds pretty exciting. Check it out at: www.norwayhouse.mb.ca/yorkboat/index.html And the next issue of Northwest Journal will feature a well-researched article on the early (c.1795-1820) history of the York boat by Thomas Swan. Your humble & obedient servant, Angela Gottfred Editor, Northwest Journal agottfre@telusplanet.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:34:06 -0600 From: "Douglas Hepner" Subject: MtMan-List: blanket hat/hood Does anyone have a pattern or instructions or anything that would be useful in the construction of a blanket hat/hood as seen in the A.J. Miller painting and sketches? Thanks for any help. YMOS "Dull Hawk" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:55:49 EST From: Michae1597@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: blanket hat/hood I made one many years back using the mountain man sketchbook don't know which one as there out on loan probably never to be returned ... mic ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:06:31 -0800 From: Laurel huber Subject: Re: MtMan-List: blanket hat/hood "The Mountain's Sketchbook-Vol. #1, Page #7". This book has a workable patten and instructions enough to make the item you want. I've made two from this basic pattern. Larry Huber "Shoots-the-Prairie" Douglas Hepner wrote: > Does anyone have a pattern or instructions or anything that would be > useful in the construction of a blanket hat/hood as seen in the A.J. Miller > painting and sketches? > Thanks for any help. > > YMOS > "Dull Hawk" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:06:31 -0800 From: Laurel huber Subject: Re: MtMan-List: blanket hat/hood "The Mountain's Sketchbook-Vol. #1, Page #7". This book has a workable patten and instructions enough to make the item you want. I've made two from this basic pattern. Larry Huber "Shoots-the-Prairie" Douglas Hepner wrote: > Does anyone have a pattern or instructions or anything that would be > useful in the construction of a blanket hat/hood as seen in the A.J. Miller > painting and sketches? > Thanks for any help. > > YMOS > "Dull Hawk" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:47:17 -0800 From: JW Stephens Subject: MtMan-List: Fishing in the mountains I'm interested in persuing any leads regarding documentation of fur-trade era mountaineers and trout fishing either for sustenance or recreation during the times when beaver weren't being trapped. Since trappers were in the water a lot they must have seen the abundance of fish in beaver ponds and the waters that beaver frequent. Surely trout were not like the European honey bee, making its way across the continent just in advance of the westering nation, but a native population, established and in balance like the buffalo and forest primeval. Yet in my reading this winter (Osborne Russell, Hafen, Morgan, Bil Gilbert, Lewis Garrard and others) I have found many lean times around quality waters. What, were these guys too stupid to know how to catch and eat fish? I am puzzled ... No doubt there were forms of catching fish that many would avoid as unsuitable "recreation" but though I have seen many references to natives fishing with weir and spear, why have I not seen reference to the hungry trapper, cached in Blackfeet country, not wanting to shoot at game for fear of drawing unwelcome company, filling his meatbag with the produce of stream and pond? And how about during rendezvous, and for that matter, how about in tribal camps? Any help solving this mystery for me will be appreciated. ------------------------------ End of hist_text-digest V1 #247 ******************************* - To unsubscribe to hist_text-digest, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe hist_text-digest" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.