From: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com (hist_text-digest) To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #276 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, April 5 1999 Volume 01 : Number 276 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 3 Apr 1999 07:16:32 -0800 From: Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Food Safe Oil No management positons Lanney, like the name says "slow an old", many others areas we can pronder upon with interest, our's or your knowledge. Seems at times we keep beating a dead horse, that's all. Turtle __________________ > > Hey Turtle > You the foreman on this job? > Lanney > -----Original Message----- > From: turtle@uswestmail.net > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Cc: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 8:47 AM > Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Food Safe Oil > > > >Hey Boys, > > > >Lets move on, seems everyone is in agreement that olive oil or walnut oil works, so make your selection and use what you like. > > > >Turtle > >_____________ > > > >On Fri, 02 April 1999, RR1LA@aol.com wrote: > > > >> > >> been using olive oil for years on both noggins and utensils, and it works > >> great. never been sticky or gone rancid, and you've probably got a bottle in > >> your kitchen cupboard... MHO, Barney Fife > >> > > > > > >Signup for your free USWEST.mail Email account http://www.uswestmail.net > > > > Signup for your free USWEST.mail Email account http://www.uswestmail.net ------------------------------ Date: 3 Apr 1999 07:16:32 -0800 From: Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Food Safe Oil No management positons Lanney, like the name says "slow an old", many others areas we can pronder upon with interest, our's or your knowledge. Seems at times we keep beating a dead horse, that's all. Turtle __________________ > > Hey Turtle > You the foreman on this job? > Lanney > -----Original Message----- > From: turtle@uswestmail.net > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Cc: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 8:47 AM > Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Food Safe Oil > > > >Hey Boys, > > > >Lets move on, seems everyone is in agreement that olive oil or walnut oil works, so make your selection and use what you like. > > > >Turtle > >_____________ > > > >On Fri, 02 April 1999, RR1LA@aol.com wrote: > > > >> > >> been using olive oil for years on both noggins and utensils, and it works > >> great. never been sticky or gone rancid, and you've probably got a bottle in > >> your kitchen cupboard... MHO, Barney Fife > >> > > > > > >Signup for your free USWEST.mail Email account http://www.uswestmail.net > > > > Signup for your free USWEST.mail Email account http://www.uswestmail.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 10:21:58 -0500 From: "Fred A. Miller" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Honey turtle@uswestmail.net wrote: > > Honey will turn hard into a crystal form, but can be heated in it's container sitting in a pan of water, bringing to a boil then remove and let cool. It's now good as new in it's original state. Have done this several times on a can of honey that was 4-5 years old and have had no problems. Think how much honey has been trashed because it had turned to crystal ! > > Like Vic says I have been around bees and honey for a few years and have had no experience with it becoming rancid or molding. Many excellent health benefits from a natural product of nature. The reason it doesn't "go bad," is because of something the bees have in the hive called propolis(sp). It's made from certain tree pollens. Anyway, it kills bacteria. Fred - -- "Slicker 'n Willie Lube".......and that's doin some! http://www.cap-n-ball.com/thunder/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 10:29:41 -0500 From: deforge1@wesnet.com (Dennis Miles) Subject: MtMan-List: Shootin Gun Hi all, Those who read this on the other list ignore it, just casting the net a might wider... Due to the sudden need for a new shootin' gun, I am in the market. HAS to be flint, and big enough for bear, doen't even have to be finished or comlete... Any bites? Thanks D "Abair ach beagan is abair gu math e" DOUBLE EDGE FORGE Period Knives & Iron Accouterments http://www.wesnet.com/deforge1 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 09:36:31 -0600 From: "Ratcliff" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Food Safe Oil you are right......many dead horses are beaten so badly that their own = mamas wouldn't know if they were laying face up or face down. Hope you = realize that my post was a tickle, not a shot. Lanney - -----Original Message----- From: turtle@uswestmail.net To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Cc: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 9:17 AM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Food Safe Oil >No management positons Lanney, like the name says "slow an old", many = others areas we can pronder upon with interest, our's or your knowledge. > >Seems at times we keep beating a dead horse, that's all. > >Turtle >__________________ >>=20 >> Hey Turtle >> You the foreman on this job? >> Lanney=20 >> -----Original Message----- >> From: turtle@uswestmail.net >> To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com >> Cc: hist_text@lists.xmission.com >> Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 8:47 AM >> Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Food Safe Oil >>=20 >>=20 >> >Hey Boys, >> > >> >Lets move on, seems everyone is in agreement that olive oil or = walnut oil works, so make your selection and use what you like. >> > >> >Turtle >> >_____________ >> > >> >On Fri, 02 April 1999, RR1LA@aol.com wrote: >> > >> >>=20 >> >> been using olive oil for years on both noggins and utensils, and = it works=20 >> >> great. never been sticky or gone rancid, and you've probably got = a bottle in=20 >> >> your kitchen cupboard... MHO, Barney Fife >> >>=20 >> > >> > >> >Signup for your free USWEST.mail Email account = http://www.uswestmail.net >> > >>=20 >>=20 > > >Signup for your free USWEST.mail Email account = http://www.uswestmail.net > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 09:42:06 -0600 From: "Ratcliff" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Shootin Gun Dennis When I hunt bear down here I usually carry a big Willow switch and a = burlap bag. Of course, there ain't no bear down here...except for a few = in deep east Texas and some in the mountains of west Texas and I keep my = ass out of there. Maybe you could shoot flints with a slingshot.=20 your helpful brother Lanney - -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Miles To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 9:31 AM Subject: MtMan-List: Shootin Gun=20 >Hi all, > Those who read this on the other list ignore it, just casting the net = a >might wider... >Due to the sudden need for a new shootin' gun, I am in the market. HAS = to be >flint, and big enough for bear, doen't even have to be finished or >comlete... Any bites? >Thanks >D > > "Abair ach beagan is abair gu math e" > DOUBLE EDGE FORGE > Period Knives & Iron Accouterments > http://www.wesnet.com/deforge1 > > ------------------------------ Date: 3 Apr 1999 08:02:14 -0800 From: Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Military rifle (was Bayonetting a bear?) Turtle you horses butt, I thought you went under at that big flood on the Mississippi a few years ago, still back east! If you can quote me right, then don't quote me at all, you left out all the colorful lanuage. Anyway I could list anything in the future that I may want to move if the folks on this list think that's OK. Oh, it only takes me 35-40 days for the cleanin' and playin' now. The wife says that's more time for lookin' and tradin', she finally gave up on the dealin'. That's right on the lug on that musket, forgot about that old flinter, Turtle you should have spoke up, would have saved it for you. Lanney you can't hurt this old fart, his head is like a good old flint - smooth, dull and hard. Later Buck On Sat, 03 April 1999, turtle@uswestmail.net wrote: > I have seen article in American Riflemen of "contract" rifles of the Amer. Rev. War and before showing lug arrangements on the end of barrels, a combination affair that included a sight. Signup for your free USWEST.mail Email account http://www.uswestmail.net ------------------------------ Date: 3 Apr 1999 08:02:14 -0800 From: Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Military rifle (was Bayonetting a bear?) Turtle you horses butt, I thought you went under at that big flood on the Mississippi a few years ago, still back east! If you can quote me right, then don't quote me at all, you left out all the colorful lanuage. Anyway I could list anything in the future that I may want to move if the folks on this list think that's OK. Oh, it only takes me 35-40 days for the cleanin' and playin' now. The wife says that's more time for lookin' and tradin', she finally gave up on the dealin'. That's right on the lug on that musket, forgot about that old flinter, Turtle you should have spoke up, would have saved it for you. Lanney you can't hurt this old fart, his head is like a good old flint - smooth, dull and hard. Later Buck On Sat, 03 April 1999, turtle@uswestmail.net wrote: > I have seen article in American Riflemen of "contract" rifles of the Amer. Rev. War and before showing lug arrangements on the end of barrels, a combination affair that included a sight. Signup for your free USWEST.mail Email account http://www.uswestmail.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 11:08:30 -0500 From: deforge1@wesnet.com (Dennis Miles) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Shootin Gun (YAK) Delete, don't whine. Hell Lanney, C'mon up, bring yer switch 'n bag... I'll bring some blotter paper and a video camera, and we can show folks how you earned your new name of "Ol Bearscat" And I'll win enough money from one of those t.v. shows that show real video to have Wallace Gussler make me a shooter!! Know what the last words of most Texans are??? "Hey!! Lookit me! Whatch this!!" D "Abair ach beagan is abair gu math e" DOUBLE EDGE FORGE Period Knives & Iron Accouterments http://www.wesnet.com/deforge1 ------------------------------ Date: 03 Apr 99 12:06:13 -0700 From: Phyllis and Don Keas Subject: RE: MtMan-List: The Last of the Mountain Men Reply to: RE: MtMan-List: The Last of the Mountain Men The Backwoodsman did several articles about him. DON AND PHYLLIS KEAS ---LIving History Consultants northwoods wrote: >Just read a rather interesting book last week entitled "The Last of the >Mountain Men". Many of you are probably familiar with this book, but for >those who aren't it's about a gentleman named Sylvan Hart who after >graduating college with a degree in engineering decided to >"live like a mountain man" on "the River of No Return" in Idaho. He made, >grew, mined, or hunted virtually everything he needed. >He grew 20 different types of vegetables in his garden. He had a = blacksmith >shop that he made most of the tools he needed to manufacture an = unbelievable >assortment of goods. Of particular interest are the flintlock and = percussion >firearms he made. >In his own words, the only items he brought back on his infrequent trips = to >civilization were, "tea, books, and gunpowder". >The handwrought copperware that he manufactured is also very interesting. >A "samovar"(for making tea), creamer, sugar bowls, ladles, pots, lamps, = tea >kettles, tea balls (he was a serious tea drinker indulging in dozens of >different varieties) are just a few examples of these items. >I enjoyed the book and I hope others do as well. > >>From the northwoods, > >Tony Clark > > > > >RFC822 header >----------------------------------- > > Received: from lists.xmission.com [198.60.22.7] by mail.market1.com with = ESMTP > (SMTPD32-5.01) id A32E15B00C0; Fri, 02 Apr 1999 09:41:18 -0700 > Received: from domo by lists.xmission.com with local (Exim 2.05 #1) > id 10T702-0006mN-00 > for hist_text-goout@lists.xmission.com; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:40:54 -0700 > Received: from [205.243.220.6] (helo=3Dvaughn.ez-net.com ident=3Droot) > by lists.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) > id 10T6zy-0006mB-00 > for hist_text@lists.xmission.com; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:40:52 -0700 > Received: from Dr (pm3gs1-m1.ez-net.com [207.250.163.11]) > by vaughn.ez-net.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA03286 > for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:39:11 -0600 (CST)= > Message-ID: <003401be7d28$45a297c0$0ba3facf@Dr.LisaR.Clark> > From: "northwoods" > To: > Subject: MtMan-List: The Last of the Mountain Men > Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:45:52 -0600 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=3D"iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > Sender: owner-hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Precedence: bulk > Reply-To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > X-RCPT-TO: > X-UIDL: 322 > Status: U > ------------------------------ Date: 03 Apr 99 12:21:07 -0700 From: Phyllis and Don Keas Subject: RE: MtMan-List: Copper Pots pix Reply to: RE: MtMan-List: Copper Pots pix Sean - Tried your address and couldn't get it. DON AND PHYLLIS KEAS ---LIving History Consultants sean wrote: >My apologies.... I was sent a picture of nested copper pots to post on a >page I did for the List, but no text came with it. I finally got it posted >(LONG week at the office...) for those of you who want to check it out the >address is: > >http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Geyser/3216/HistList.htm > >This is a "closed" page for only those who are a member of this list... > >Addison Miller > > > > > >RFC822 header >----------------------------------- > > Received: from lists.xmission.com [198.60.22.7] by mail.market1.com with ESMTP > (SMTPD32-5.01) id AB0D19200A6; Fri, 02 Apr 1999 06:50:05 -0700 > Received: from domo by lists.xmission.com with local (Exim 2.05 #1) > id 10T4Ki-0000CR-00 > for hist_text-goout@lists.xmission.com; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 06:50:04 -0700 > Received: from [198.60.22.22] (helo=mail.xmission.com) > by lists.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) > id 10T4Kf-0000CM-00 > for hist_text@lists.xmission.com; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 06:50:01 -0700 > Received: from [206.102.200.11] (helo=mercury.peganet.net ident=root) > by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) > id 10T4Kf-0002fI-00 > for Hist_text@xmission.com; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 06:50:01 -0700 > Received: from seans-puter (peg28-ts53.peganet.com [206.100.65.103]) > by mercury.peganet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA28964 > for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 08:49:58 -0500 (EST) > Message-ID: <000301be7d10$8ef4a8e0$674164ce@seans-puter> > From: "sean" > To: > Subject: MtMan-List: Copper Pots pix > Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 08:56:05 -0500 > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 > Sender: owner-hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Precedence: bulk > Reply-To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > X-RCPT-TO: > X-UIDL: 314 > Status: U > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:29:28 -0500 From: "sean" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Copper Pots pix Hmmm... not idea why... I just clicked on the URL and it took me right there... Its slow to load due to the size of the graphic. I'll see if my wife can cut it down in KB some... - -----Original Message----- From: Phyllis and Don Keas To: hist_text Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 2:17 PM Subject: RE: MtMan-List: Copper Pots pix > Reply to: RE: MtMan-List: Copper Pots pix >Sean - Tried your address and couldn't get it. > >DON AND PHYLLIS KEAS ---LIving History Consultants > >sean wrote: >>My apologies.... I was sent a picture of nested copper pots to post on a >>page I did for the List, but no text came with it. I finally got it >posted >>(LONG week at the office...) for those of you who want to check it out >the >>address is: >> >>http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Geyser/3216/HistList.htm >> >>This is a "closed" page for only those who are a member of this list... >> >>Addison Miller >> >> >> >> >> >>RFC822 header >>----------------------------------- >> >> Received: from lists.xmission.com [198.60.22.7] by mail.market1.com >with ESMTP >> (SMTPD32-5.01) id AB0D19200A6; Fri, 02 Apr 1999 06:50:05 -0700 >> Received: from domo by lists.xmission.com with local (Exim 2.05 #1) >> id 10T4Ki-0000CR-00 >> for hist_text-goout@lists.xmission.com; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 06:50:04 -0700 >> Received: from [198.60.22.22] (helo=mail.xmission.com) >> by lists.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) >> id 10T4Kf-0000CM-00 >> for hist_text@lists.xmission.com; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 06:50:01 -0700 >> Received: from [206.102.200.11] (helo=mercury.peganet.net ident=root) >> by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) >> id 10T4Kf-0002fI-00 >> for Hist_text@xmission.com; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 06:50:01 -0700 >> Received: from seans-puter (peg28-ts53.peganet.com [206.100.65.103]) >> by mercury.peganet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA28964 >> for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 08:49:58 -0500 (EST) >> Message-ID: <000301be7d10$8ef4a8e0$674164ce@seans-puter> >> From: "sean" >> To: >> Subject: MtMan-List: Copper Pots pix >> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 08:56:05 -0500 >> X-Priority: 3 >> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 >> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 >> Sender: owner-hist_text@lists.xmission.com >> Precedence: bulk >> Reply-To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com >> X-RCPT-TO: >> X-UIDL: 314 >> Status: U >> > > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 17:38:47 -0500 From: "sean" Subject: MtMan-List: Fw: Hist-Prog-Other comment Mountain Men I wrote asking when they might be re-showingthe Moutain Men... below is the answer... Soooo... I ordered the video from the number below. They were totally OUT of stock... Had a big run on it after the show was on TV... Will be about 6 wks delivery they tell me. Anyone wanting it, call...I think it was $24.00 including shipping. Addison Miller >Dear Addison, > >The program mentioned in your e-mail, "Time Machine: Mountain Men", is not >scheduled to repeat at this time. Please check back regularly (every two >to three months) to see if the program has been re-scheduled. > >To find out the home video availablity of this or any other program, please >call A&E Home Video at (888) 708-1776. Ask for the program by its exact >title. Thank you for your interest in our programming. > > >Viewer Relations >http://www.AandE.com >http://www.Biography.com >http://www.HistoryChannel.com > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 18:03:57 -0500 (EST) From: JONDMARINETTI@webtv.net (JON MARINETTI) Subject: MtMan-List: mtmen list: the last of the mountain men Where's Kitchen Creek (state?) Who's Buckskin Bill? (and some folks say he's up there still). Some others have seen The Ancient Ones at various times. There's a 2 page article by Charlie Richie (titled Presences) in a Dixie Gun Works 1981 Blackpowder Annual that is right along this path. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 17:23:58 -0700 From: Dean Rudy Subject: MtMan-List: Fwd: Reenacting >From: FSLark@aol.com >Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 18:51:40 EST >Subject: Reenacting >To: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 >Reply-To: FSLark@aol.com > >I have been lurking for just over a month and am getting interested in >participating at Rendevous events. I have been to several Civil War >reenactments locally which have whetted my appetite for living history. As a >complete novice, I have no equipment and know no one who is a "mountain man" >reenactor in this part of Florida (Ocala). I am curious about how to get >started and what startup equipment would cost. Any help/advice would be >greatly appreciated. >Frank >P.S. I viewed the Mountain Man show on the History Channel. As a history >teacher at the high school level, I can with certainty assert that few >students would catch the errors noted. I believe the only truly glaring >error was the Winchester rifle in the photograph. > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 17:00:53 -0800 From: Ridgerunner Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Honey "Fred A. Miller" wrote: > > > The reason it doesn't "go bad," is because of something the bees have in the > hive called propolis(sp). It's made from certain tree pollens. Anyway, it > kills bacteria. > > Fred > Another reason is that honey, being pure sugar, is strongly hygroscopic. In other words, it pulls all the water out of other cells that get into it, thereby killing them. Good stuff, honey, especially on sourdough biscuits soaked with marrowfat or butter. Butch ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 14:31:56 EDT From: PappyCton@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: On horse "wild" horse training. There's a whole generation of horsemen, who like Monty Roberts, have figgered out some easy(ier) ways to train... Tom Dorrance is another, who also has a book out. There are a couple of others, too. These guys do workshops around the country, with people bringing in horses as well as a full audience. Well worth the admission price. Body language, timing and glacial slow patience are key--- watching the process in real time makes a world of difference. Having done some horseshoeing, and seen some hooves, mustang hooves are sturdy, thick walled and well formed... not shelly and thin, but strong and resilient. As the saying goes: `no hoof, no horse'. These were mustangs raised in high desert country, not lush grasslands, either. There are mustang show events, now. A teacher/friend taught me that most of the health and training issues we deal with our horses, are caused by captivity. Think about it- hoof problems, digestive, behavioral (i.e., cribbing), often have their root in, or are exacerbated by captivity. Go see Monty Roberts, Tom Dorrance, or half a dozen others- you won't regret it. Also, from the university of Colorado (I think), Dr. Temple Grandin, who specializes in the design of livestock handling facilities. She has a couple of books out, one auto biography, and a couple of texts. She has a unique personal perception, and also does appearances. She also is very accesible on line, from her own account. From California, where we're all woolly and a yard wide! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 23:11:53 -0700 From: Barbara Smith Subject: MtMan-List: Honey Hey, any great tips on how to transport honey? I put mine in a glass bottle with a cork, and no matter who nicely it's packed in my cassette, it always tips over, oozes past the cork, and gets on everything! It's become a huge joke with my friends. I hate to give up packing it, but even crystalized it makes a mess. Help! :-) YMDS - -Tassee ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 23:16:53 -0700 From: Barbara Smith Subject: MtMan-List: Food Safe Oil Okay, one last on this topic: My mama always uses peanut oil. Don't wash your wooden ware in soap. If you use it ofen enough, it won't have a chance to get rancid. Even when I've stuck mine in a cabinet for year, pulled it out and found it sticky (rare occurence), I just scrub it with hot water, use it, scrub it again, and re-oil. Mama would tan my hide if she caught me washing her wooden bowls in soap. Same as the cast iron. Thank God for the Depression - I've learned most of my "mountain man" skills from my Mom from Oklahoma! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 01:29:24 -0700 From: tigrbo1 Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Fwd: Reenacting Greetings Dean, Just for starters, pick a year date and locality, then work outward from there. When developing your persona it helps a lot if you start out with a specific year and location in mind as the year and place your persona is from will determine a great deal. Hope this helps get you started, E-mail again when you have more questions. Best regards, Terry Smith > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 00:59:50 -0700 From: tigrbo1 Subject: MtMan-List: Wall Tents Hello List, This is to the fellow inquiring about wheather or not he should buy a wall tent from a civil war reenactor and would it be period appropreate or not. To make a long story short, wall tents are documentable back to before Roman times, so yes the tent would be just fine. Best regards, Terry Smith > ------------------------------ Date: 5 Apr 1999 07:37:20 -0700 From: Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Honey Barb, We have used a small paint can, quart size. You can buy new cans that can be fill with boiling water to clean then wash with hot soapy water. I got lucky and found an old 1830's tin tobacco can that had a tight fitting lid, but only holds enought for a 2-3 day camp for several people. Of corse we you it in place of other sweeteners because of container and having no problems with ants or other bugs being attracted to it. On long 2-4 week outings we use the paint can that now has a pleasing dull tone now after years of service. Have carried this in our "mess" on horseback, canoe and just moving from one spot to another with traveling and have had no spills in 25-30 years. Before this time period we tried a jar like you have mentioned and have had problems. Buck ______________________ On Sun, 04 April 1999, Barbara Smith wrote: > > Hey, any great tips on how to transport honey? I put mine in a glass > bottle with a cork, and no matter who nicely it's packed in my cassette, > it always tips over, oozes past the cork, and gets on everything! It's > become a huge joke with my friends. I hate to give up packing it, but > even crystalized it makes a mess. Help! :-) > > YMDS > -Tassee Signup for your free USWEST.mail Email account http://www.uswestmail.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:14:24 -0600 From: Baird.Rick@orbital-lsg.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: mtmen list: the last of the mountain men Jon, Get the book so you'll know all about "Buckskin Bill". (He couldn't tan a lick by the way). Kitchen Creek is in Idaho, Salmon River Primitive Area. ------------------------------ End of hist_text-digest V1 #276 ******************************* - 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.