From: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com (hist_text-digest) To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #127 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 Thursday, August 20 1998 Volume 01 : Number 127 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:50:23 EDT From: Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Fwd: Liver-Eating Johnston The book mentioned in your posting is entitled "Footprints along theYellowstone". I have checked the book out from my local library a couple of times. It has some fantastic stories about the early days of Montana and about Liver-eatin' Johnston. If you can find it, enjoy. YMHS Wade ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:47:49 -0500 From: "Ken" Subject: Re: Re: MtMan-List: Fwd: Liver-Eating Johnston Johnston is the way it is written on the marker at Trailtown, in WY where he was reburied. YF - ---------- > From: David Tippets > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Subject: Re: Re: MtMan-List: Fwd: Liver-Eating Johnston > Date: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 11:18 PM > > Sorry, but I have no source of information that documents the correct > spelling of the last name. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rkleinx2@aol.com > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Date: Friday, August 14, 1998 10:48 AM > Subject: Re: Re: MtMan-List: Fwd: Liver-Eating Johnston > > > > > >In a message dated 8/14/98 7:53:24 AM, you wrote: > > > >< >contains some of the history of John Johnson while he lived in Redlodge and > >other areas close to the Yellowstone River in Montana. It also includes an > >account of his death in a VA hospital in Los Angeles.>> > > > > > >So, is it Johnston or Johnson? > > Dick > > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:49:03 -0700 From: "Jerry H. Wheeler" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Fwd: Liver-Eating Johnston so sorry( savory )is the name my mother was born there K. Carpenter wrote: > Jerry H. Wheeler wrote: > > > if you go to baggs wyo go a little farther to slater thereis a musium there that is > > about my great great great grand father also other pioneers of that area his name > > is james baker he is barred their near there. i still have his sharps buffalo gun > > an some other charished memorabilia. jerry wheeler---iron tongue > > > > > > > I have been to this museum in Savery, Wyoming. They have one of Baker's cabins on > > the museum grounds and one of his dugout canoes in the musuem. > > I forgot to mention in my original reply that, several years ago, I actually went to > the VA cemetary in LA and went to the spot described in a book, I believe Crow Killer, > to find Johnston's grave. He had already been moved. > > Carp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:51:09 -0700 From: "Jerry H. Wheeler" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Fwd: Liver-Eating Johnston im not sure but i think he is buried in red lodge mont. iron tongue David Tippets wrote: > Sorry, but I have no source of information that documents the correct > spelling of the last name. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rkleinx2@aol.com > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Date: Friday, August 14, 1998 10:48 AM > Subject: Re: Re: MtMan-List: Fwd: Liver-Eating Johnston > > > > >In a message dated 8/14/98 7:53:24 AM, you wrote: > > > >< >contains some of the history of John Johnson while he lived in Redlodge and > >other areas close to the Yellowstone River in Montana. It also includes an > >account of his death in a VA hospital in Los Angeles.>> > > > > > >So, is it Johnston or Johnson? > > Dick > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 01:58:04 -0500 From: "Ken" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Fwd: Liver-Eating Johnston Naw Iron Tongue, he was re-buried at Trailtown and the AMM guys built a really neat memorial for him. They had a big shindig and even old Robert Redford was there. I have one of the booklets they gave out and I have some pictures of it from when Wolf and Pam and I went there one year after rendezvous. I think that was 1975. Yeah, cause we camped at Henry's Fork that year too. Getting old and can't keep all that stuff straight as well as I used to. I'll see if I can find you a photo if you want one. YF - ---------- > From: Jerry H. Wheeler > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Fwd: Liver-Eating Johnston > Date: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 1:51 PM > > im not sure but i think he is buried in red lodge mont. iron tongue > > David Tippets wrote: > > > Sorry, but I have no source of information that documents the correct > > spelling of the last name. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rkleinx2@aol.com > > To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com > > Date: Friday, August 14, 1998 10:48 AM > > Subject: Re: Re: MtMan-List: Fwd: Liver-Eating Johnston > > > > > > > >In a message dated 8/14/98 7:53:24 AM, you wrote: > > > > > >< > >contains some of the history of John Johnson while he lived in Redlodge and > > >other areas close to the Yellowstone River in Montana. It also includes an > > >account of his death in a VA hospital in Los Angeles.>> > > > > > > > > >So, is it Johnston or Johnson? > > > Dick > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 03:24:53 -0500 From: Jeff Powers Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Looking for list On 1998-08-18 hist_text@lists.xmission.com said to kestrel@ticon.net >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 >Hey guys and gals.. Is the RevWar listserve defunct..? I try to sub >to it, and I get a message back saying it doesnt exist.. Has it >moved...? I'd 'preicate being informed of its status by any of you >good folk HTTP://www.meridian.com/revlist/ That should help ya! SOUFLE,SOUFLE La VIELLE Net-Tamer V 1.08.1 - Test Drive ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 03:24:53 -0500 From: Jeff Powers Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Looking for list On 1998-08-18 hist_text@lists.xmission.com said to kestrel@ticon.net >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 >Hey guys and gals.. Is the RevWar listserve defunct..? I try to sub >to it, and I get a message back saying it doesnt exist.. Has it >moved...? I'd 'preicate being informed of its status by any of you >good folk HTTP://www.meridian.com/revlist/ That should help ya! SOUFLE,SOUFLE La VIELLE Net-Tamer V 1.08.1 - Test Drive ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:09:16 -0600 (CST) From: mxhbc@TTACS.TTU.EDU (Henry B. Crawford) Subject: MtMan-List: (fwd)Negro trappers >Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:39:26 -0700 >From: Dale Nelson >Subject: Negro trappers >To: mxhbc@TTACS.TTU.EDU >Reply-to: dnelson@wizzards.net >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-KIT (Win95; U) >Posted-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:04:16 -0700 > >Henry, As you will see below I've sent this to the mountain man list >Sunday and it's now Tuesday and it hasn't shown up yet. I don't know >what the problem is, but I thought I'd send it straight to you, and see >if you get it that way. Let me know if you do. Thanks, Dale Nelson > >Subject: > Negro trappers > Date: > Sun, 16 Aug 1998 16:23:51 -0700 > From: > Dale Nelson > To: > hist_text@lists.xmission.com > > Henry Crawford and to whom else it might concern. Henry, some >time ago >you asked if anyone had any info on black mountain men, and there was a >lot of discussion of Beckworth, but I don't recall any others. I hope >I'm not repeating what others have said, but I ran across this >information in a totally unexpected place. I've been researching the >Applegate Trail, and this information is in a book titled "TWO TRAILS >NORTH" Trappers' Trails and Travellers' Tales From the Umpqua Through >the Willamette, Long Tom and Siuslaw River Valleys -- Volume 1 - Lane >Applegate Trail Sesquicentennial Series by Douglas P. Card. This is >like a county museum book, (Lane stands for Lane county) and it's 6 >years out of period, but the people aren't. The trail was scouted out >in 1846, and was the southern route to Oregon. The guide that took Levi >Scott and Jesse Applegate through to map out the trail for the first >time was Moses "Black" Harris (ca. 1800 - 1849) > In 1845 he was with Elijah White trying to find a better route >through the Cascade mountains, and in 1845 he helped rescue the lost >wagon train that Stephen Meeks (Joe's brother) got all tangled up out in >the Oregon desert. Then in 1846 he helped lead the party which >discovered the route through the Calapooya Mountains and into the Umpqua >drainage. The worst part of the trail was the "dread canyon of the >Umpqua", and he lead the second party that found that pass, and made it >all the way through Nevada. He helped the first emigrant train come in, >and came back with a rescue party to rescue the stragglers, who were >loosing all their possessions and dying in what is now Canyon Creek pass >on I-5. Now you kind of breeze through that nine miles in 8 minutes. >It took the first train 3 weeks. Some people don't think he was black, >and you might contact the Douglas County Museum in Roseburg, OR to see >what they have to say on that. Miller painted him and described his >skin as being very dark. And of course there is this that is either his >epitaph or at least written about him by Clyman. "Here lies the bones >of old Black Harris Who often traveled beyond the far west And >for the freedom of equal rights He crossed the snowy mountain >heights Was a free and essay kind of soul Especially with a >belly full." > A black man named Black Douglas worked for the HBC, but he >doesn't say in what position he was employed. > Probably the first black man to reach Southern Oregon was a man >named Peter Ranne or Raney. He was with Jedediah Smith's brigade and >was killed at the junction of Smith River with the Umpqua along with >most (15) of Smith's other men. He was Smith's servant when they were >detained in Mexican California. > George Winslow (Winslow Anderson) In 1834 he was with Ewing >Young when he first came to Oregon and Winslow is credited with being >the first black man in Lane County, which is the most southern part of >the Willamette valley. He is one of the men who signed a Temperance >Pledge directed at Young, but despite that he stayed close to him and >frequently appears in his ledgers under one of his two names. > > Hope this was some help to you. DN > > ***************************************** Henry B. Crawford Curator of History mxhbc@ttacs.ttu.edu Museum of Texas Tech University 806/742-2442 Box 43191 FAX 742-1136 Lubbock, TX 79409-3191 WEBSITE: http://www.ttu.edu/~museum ****** Living History . . . Because it's there! ******* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:29:14 -0600 (CST) From: mxhbc@TTACS.TTU.EDU (Henry B. Crawford) Subject: MtMan-List: Milk (aka Calico) >No I don't think so....but I do know that some Hispanics and African >Americans are lactose intolerant but not the entire group of people. > >Ted That's my point. Just because some members of a certain race have similar characteristics, you can't make a general rule for the rest. I am not lactose intolerant, nor are any members of my family on both sides. I do know several Caucasians who are, but there is no way one can say that all are. How did we ever get on this anyway?? I missed a chapter somewhere. HBC ***************************************** Henry B. Crawford Curator of History mxhbc@ttacs.ttu.edu Museum of Texas Tech University 806/742-2442 Box 43191 FAX 742-1136 Lubbock, TX 79409-3191 WEBSITE: http://www.ttu.edu/~museum ****** Living History . . . Because it's there! ******* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:19:51 +0000 From: Forrest Smouse Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Milk (aka: Calico) I am lactose intolerant and have been for near 20 years. earlier in my life I enjoy all milk products. The intolerance started slowly. My mother has always been lactose intolerant. Most peoples bodies have enzymes that break down the complex sugars in milk. If you don't have these enzymes those sugars are broken down in the large intestines by bacteria. The by-produce of this is for most people extreme abdominal pain and gas. Back to the original statement, if you have never eating a product like milk as most native Americans hadn't then they wouldn't have those enzymes. In survival situations in the wilds, they tell you not to eat the wild plants, if you haven't been eating them on a regular basis, because they will make you sick. Forrest Smouse Henry B. Crawford wrote: > >Re "racial" lactose intolerance -- Actually this is possible (maybe as > >much from accustomed diet as racial stock) -- my father told us a story > >of how his unit treated a bunch of Korean orphans during the Korean war > >to an ice cream party, only to watch in dismay as they all got sick. > >Indian ancestry traces back to Asian groups, I believe ??? > > I think this has more to do with malnutrition, especially if the orphans > had been starving. It takes the system some time to reaclimate to acidic > foods after having been deprived. The ice cream may have been a bit > premature. > > HBC > > ***************************************** > Henry B. Crawford Curator of History > mxhbc@ttacs.ttu.edu Museum of Texas Tech University > 806/742-2442 Box 43191 > FAX 742-1136 Lubbock, TX 79409-3191 > WEBSITE: http://www.ttu.edu/~museum > ****** Living History . . . Because it's there! ******* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:07:26 -0700 From: Gary Bell Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Milk (aka Calico) Henry B. Crawford wrote: > >No I don't think so....but I do know that some Hispanics and African > >Americans are lactose intolerant but not the entire group of people. > > > >Ted > > That's my point. Just because some members of a certain race have similar > characteristics, you can't make a general rule for the rest. I am not > lactose intolerant, nor are any members of my family on both sides. I do > know several Caucasians who are, but there is no way one can say that all > are. > > How did we ever get on this anyway?? I missed a chapter somewhere. > > HBC Henry, Clearly some folks are confusing the genetic component of lactose intolerance with racial issues. I don't need to remind a black man of the many times this has happened. There may well have been racial groups -- read genetically isolated Native American groups -- where such a genotype became prevalent. There may also have been many groups where lactose (the specific sugar found in milk) was not part of their dietary experience, and where despite having the genetics to handle it, that tolerance dies out after their mothers weaned them if they never again consume milk products -- particularly after puberty. Our contemporary world is filled with 'adult' folks intolerant of milk sugars - -- for genetic and other reasons. I think that except for the improbability of Native American groups so isolated that such a gene can gain dominance, most of the milk intolerance is based on the short term effects of malnutrition, or the cultural effects of not having milk in the diet since infancy. I believe that any workers in the international aid field today would echo these notions. Your thoughts? Gary, aka Heron ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:25:40 -0500 From: WIDD-Tim Austin (WIDD-Tim Austin) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Milk (aka Calico) Have just done some reading on this subject and found it interesting. Doctors that deal in alternative treatments have determined that ALL people do not have the enzymes to digest milk or milk products after the age of 2. I enjoy milk and milk products, and will continue, however, they are sure that the process that the milk has to go through to meet the US standards kills all the enzymes in it, so you must rely upon your body to figure a way to digest it. That is why many more people today are lactose intolerant. Just thought would share some things I have read during the past several weeks. Tim Austin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:20:45 EDT From: Subject: Re: Re: MtMan-List: Milk (aka Calico) Oops....sorry Henry and the list. The milk thing came out of the "History of Fort Nisqually" book and the implication, as I saw it, was that HBC was poisoning the Indians, kinda like what happened in Walla Walla. Before the arrows flew this time, milk was determined to be what made the locals sick...... There is a connection to the fur trade somewhere in there........ Steve ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:44:50 -0600 From: "Scott Singer - \"Spinner\"" Subject: MtMan-List: moccasin hides - inside or outside? I'm making some center seam moccs with a commercially tanned elk hide. Can I use the smooth side in for a better look, or does this get to slick or sticky against the skin? - ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Singer, aka "Spinner" WWW Rendezvous Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/~wwwrendezvous Territorial Dispatch/National Association of Buckskinners Web Site http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/4833 - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:35:29 -0700 From: Roger Lahti Subject: Re: MtMan-List: moccasin hides - inside or outside? Scott' You can do it that way and it will look better but it may also (like you suspect) make the moc sticky inside. Go back a few weeks in this list and you will come to a discussion of how to "improve" commercially tanned elk hides, by carfully sanding ouf the hair side or scarf skin. What that will do is make the leather not so streachy and if you then put the hiair side out without the scarf skin on, it will look much better and wear quit well too. Hope this gets you started. I remain.... YMOS Capt. Lahti' Scott Singer - "Spinner" wrote: > I'm making some center seam moccs with a commercially tanned elk hide. Can > I use the smooth side in for a better look, or does this get to slick or > sticky against the skin? > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Scott Singer, aka "Spinner" > WWW Rendezvous Web Site: > http://www.geocities.com/~wwwrendezvous > Territorial Dispatch/National Association of Buckskinners Web Site > http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/4833 > --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:40:37 EDT From: Subject: MtMan-List: (no subject) For those of you who don't know about it, there is a series coming on next week on the History Channel you may find interesting. All times listed are Eastern Time. Longshot - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------- Monday, August 17 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Tuesday, August 18 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM Sunday, August 23 Noon - 1:00 PM Frontier Legends of the Old Northwest. Rogers' Rangers. Meet Major Robert Rogers, an unorthodox leader who helped create the concept of commando-style fighting and wrote down military rules still used today. His forces, known as Rogers' Rangers, with their knowledge of the terrain, camouflage, and surprise attack, gained the upper hand in the British struggle against the French in America. (cc) [TV G] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------- Tuesday, August 18 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Wednesday, August 19 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM Sunday, August 23 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Frontier Legends of the Old Northwest. Pontiac's Rebellion. Looks at the conflicts and personalities that fueled the Native-American resistance of 1763 when Ottawa war chief Pontiac and a consortium of Woodland tribes nearly wrested ten Great Lakes forts from British hands. We'll examine Pontiac's reasons for opposing the British and siding with the French during the French and Indian Wars. (cc) [TV G] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------- Wednesday, August 19 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Thursday, August 20 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM Sunday, August 23 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Frontier Legends of the Old Northwest. The Long Knives. Story of George Rogers Clark, Revolutionary War general and brother of William Clark of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Leading a small army in 1777--year of "The Bloody Sevens"--on secret orders from Patrick Henry, Clark launched a series of bold and brilliant strikes against the Redcoats ending in stunning victory in Indiana in 1779. (cc) [TV G] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------- Thursday, August 20 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Friday, August 21 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM Sunday, August 23 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Frontier Legends of the Old Northwest. Tecumseh: The Dream of Confederacy. Traces the rise of the Shawnee warrior Tecumseh and his half-blind brother known as The Prophet. From 1806 to 1808, they summoned a contingent of tribes to a last stand against the white men. Looks at the rivalry between Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison, who rode Tecumseh's defeat at Tippecanoe all the way to the White House. (cc) [TV G] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:38:04 -0600 From: "Scott Singer" Subject: MtMan-List: moccasin hides - inside or out? I got a piece of good heavy, pliable, commercially tanned hide (either moose or elk, forget which) to make a pair of soft-soled center seam moccasins. Could I make them with the smooth side in (for looks), or is that uncomfortable against the feet (slick, sticky, etc). Or is the "suede" side better against the skin? Will that make the soles more slippery? - ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Singer, aka "Spinner" WWW Rendezvous Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/~wwwrendezvous Territorial Dispatch/National Association of Buckskinners Web Site http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/4833 - --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:02:32 -0700 From: Roger Lahti Subject: Re: MtMan-List: moccasin hides - inside or out? Like I said, Scott, they will wear better with the hair side out but they will be slicker that way too unless you sand off the scarf skin like I suggested. That will give them a bit more traction. If you had been using brain tan as in the old days, you would wear the leather flesh side in and part of the process of making brain tan is to scrape off the scarf skin. So that is the best way to do it in my opinion. I remain... YMOS Capt. Lahti' Scott Singer wrote: > I got a piece of good heavy, pliable, commercially tanned hide (either moose > or elk, forget which) to make a pair of soft-soled center seam moccasins. > Could I make them with the smooth side in (for looks), or is that > uncomfortable against the feet (slick, sticky, etc). Or is the "suede" side > better against the skin? Will that make the soles more slippery? > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Scott Singer, aka "Spinner" > WWW Rendezvous Web Site: > http://www.geocities.com/~wwwrendezvous > Territorial Dispatch/National Association of Buckskinners Web Site > http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/4833 > --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 07:43:34 EDT From: Subject: Re: MtMan-List: moccasin hides - inside or out? i would use the smooth side out but also line it with trade wool it will keep your feet a little warmer in the mornings are if they get wet. traphand ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:48:25 EDT From: Subject: Re: MtMan-List: moccasin hides - inside or out? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --part0_903617305_boundary Content-ID: <0_903617305@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Am sending you a listing from Mtn.man that I found interesting. I would personally put the smooth side of the hide IN towards my foot. However, if you are worried about it being too slick you could rough it up with a sander. The other option is to line it with wool. Cut the wool from the same pattern that you cut the moccasin. Hope this helps. If you have kids and want a really cheap way to go with them. Cover a pair of tennis shoes (preferably slip on kind) with leather. They look like real mocassins and keep the little feet from getting hurt. Good luck. Red Hawk - --part0_903617305_boundary Content-ID: <0_903617305@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: text/plain; name="LEATHER" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-disposition: inline 
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I have created many articles of clothing out of both braintan and
commercial leather. When constructing clothing for film, there are many
techniques for ageing and coloring leather. Another note, the white
buckskin is tanned as a formaldehyde tan. Common colored hides you see ar=
e
chrome tanned, then dyed varoius colors. We can get these white hides
readily. I like to use a smoke colored hide then use "fullers dirt" to ag=
e
it. I also air brush to add highlights. I have taken the gold buckskin an=
d
made it look great. The first thing though is to use the suede side out. =
I
have have a commercial buffer in our tannery and have buffed the grain of=
f.
Also used a sand blaster on large hides. You can use a belt sander only i=
f
you have a soft pad under the leather, otherwise you will tear holes in i=
t.
The grain does not have to be completely removed, only roughed up.

Cutting fringe very thin, will disguse the commercial look. Nothing is
better than braintan when it comes to wear and looks but with some
imagination you can create a good looking outfit. Lamb suede is great for
light shirts. Deer and elk splits are ok but tend to be weak hides. Deer =
is
stronger than elk as the fibers are closer together. Why some folks want
shirts or pants from elk other than getting the neccessary size for a lar=
ge
man is beyond me.

The best thing to do with all hides wheather braintan or commercial is to
"block" them or wet, stretch and tack out the hides till dry. This is why
some guys crotch hangs down to their knees or moccasins tend to grow a si=
ze
or two. Remember that hides have more stretch from side to side than neck
to butt. This is important in cutting leather. Also that no hide will lay
completely flat as it comes off a round animal.

If anyone is interested in some other ideas of how to age leather or tone
down the gold color, let me know. As for using" Rit out" for removing
color, just lay the hides in the sun for a couple day and the color will
fand quickly on the grain side, the suede side does not work as well. Rit
out really does not do that great of a job , and neither does bleach.

Just some thoughts

Joe

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- --part0_903617305_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:54:43 -0600 From: jbrandl@wyoming.com (Joe Brandl) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: moccasin hides - inside or outside? I just finished several pair of center seam moccasins from commercial elk skin. I believe the suede side out gives a better appearance. The traction on the bottom doesn't seem to make a diffence wheather it is grain side out or suede. Both are slick on dry grass. Joe Absaroka Western Designs and Tannery Call us about our professional home tanning kit-307-455-2440 Write for custom tanning prices We produce rawhide lampshades and carry a large selection of leather and hair on robes Fine lodgepole furniture, pillows, Indian reproductions, paintings, baskets check out our new web site: http://www.onpages.com/absaroka ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:17:42 -0700 From: Roger Lahti Subject: Re: MtMan-List: moccasin hides - inside or outside? - --------------C9A16D1C3463A8B85A29ACE8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joe is right in that they will have a better appearance if built with the suede or scruffy side out. Looks more like brain tan. If you have the time though, you will get better wear from them by using the hair side out and you can have the better appearance talked about above if you sand the scarf skin or hair side off. You might find that a 1 1/2" strap under the moc and secured with thong around the ankle will give an added measure of traction to slippery mocs and it is authentic. (not always done, but I believe it was done). I remain.... YMOS Capt. Lahti' Joe Brandl wrote: > I just finished several pair of center seam moccasins from commercial elk > skin. I believe the suede side out gives a better appearance. The traction > on the bottom doesn't seem to make a diffence wheather it is grain side out > or suede. Both are slick on dry grass. > > Joe > - --------------C9A16D1C3463A8B85A29ACE8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joe is right in that they will have a better appearance if built with the suede or scruffy side out. Looks more like brain tan. If you have the time though, you will get better wear from them by using the hair side out and you can have the better appearance talked about above if you sand the scarf skin or hair side off. You might find that a 1 1/2" strap under the moc and secured with thong around the ankle  will give an added measure of traction to slippery mocs and it is authentic. (not always done, but I believe it was done). I remain....

YMOS
Capt. Lahti'

Joe Brandl wrote:

I just finished several pair of center seam moccasins from commercial elk
skin. I believe the suede side out gives a better appearance. The traction
on the bottom doesn't seem to make a diffence wheather it is grain side out
or suede. Both are slick on dry grass.

Joe
 

  - --------------C9A16D1C3463A8B85A29ACE8-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:35:32 -0700 From: Gail C Martini-Peterson Subject: MtMan-List: Re: hist_text-digest V1 #126 > >I just finished reading a book on the history of Fort Nisqually. Not > long > >after the fort was built, the HBC had cows and sheep shipped up from > Fort > >Vancouver. Seems the local Indians had never seen such critters and all > got > >quite ill from drinking the milk! The author, (a Nisqually Indian) goes > on to > >say that ALL Indians lack the enzyme to digest milk! I know of some > people who > >are "lactose in tolerate" but not an entire race. Can this be true? > > Not likely. Try telling that to all of our Indian friends who love ice > cream. > > HBC I also read somewhere that many Native Americans are for the most part lactose intolerant. I have a friend who has this problem. Sometimes she eats ice cream or drinks a latte because she enjoys the taste and decides to just put up with the problems it causes. I would guess that if someone were of mixed heritage, s/he might be less intolerant. What is the name of the book about Ft. Nisqually? Sounds interesting. Gail Martini-Peterson gcmartin@aa.net Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers ------------------------------ End of hist_text-digest V1 #127 ******************************* - 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.