From: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com (hist_text-digest) To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #300 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, May 16 1999 Volume 01 : Number 300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 01:35:50 EDT From: EmmaPeel2@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: period recipes, drinks, camp life.... Just what WAS in that Taos Lightning? Ive heard it was made at Turley's Mill and was basically whisky or grain alcohol with gunpowder! Is this true...and wouldnt that be toxic? (Heaven forbid they light up a corncob pipe..) Is it true that it was shipped all over the country? If so, wouldn't that have stopped in 1847? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 05:07:20 +0000 From: Laura Rugel Glise Subject: Re: MtMan-List: period recipes, drinks, camp life.... I've heard Aquardiente or "arwerdenty" referred to "Touse Lightning" or "Touse," but I've never heard about the gunpowder. I've also heard about a non-alcoholic beer known as spruce beer that was consumed, by Hudson's Bay Company men, to prevent scurvy. It was made by boiling spruce needles and adding molasses to the water. They let it set for a few days before drinking. Sounds dreadful. Cheers. Laura Glise Atlanta ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 07:45:59 -0600 From: jbrandl@wyoming.com (Joe Brandl) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Raw Horns I am looking for a kudo horn. It is for the Boy Scouts. 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Are they a later development of -- say -- "Reservation era"? NM ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 16:31:28 -0400 (EDT) From: PHD Subject: Re: MtMan-List: period recipes, drinks, camp life.... At 05:07 AM 5/14/99 +0000, you wrote: >I've heard Aquardiente or "arwerdenty" referred to "Touse Lightning" or >"Touse," but I've never heard about the gunpowder. > >I've also heard about a non-alcoholic beer known as spruce beer that was >consumed, by Hudson's Bay Company men, to prevent scurvy. It was made by >boiling spruce needles and adding molasses to the water. They let it >set for a few days before drinking. Sounds dreadful. > >Cheers. > >Laura Glise >Atlanta > >the spruce beer that I had had two taste.. top of keg was medicinely tasting the bottom was mellow like a stout...I'm glad to find out the headache the next morning wasn't a hangover:)...cheers to the british navy ..bottoms up ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:08:20 -0700 (PDT) From: George Noe Subject: MtMan-List: Gun---Auto Control Off Topic Kick this around: This week I saw on TV that a man intentionally used his car to run down children in a school yard.He only got two of them, I guess he couldn't reload fast enough. I did not hear anyone mention "car control" WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE????? === George R. Noe< gnoe39@yahoo.com > 1005 W.Donkey Ln. Marlow Ok. 73055 Watch your back trail, and keep your eyes on the skyline. _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:53:48 EDT From: Htorr@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Gun---Auto Control Off Topic In a message dated 5/14/99 3:05:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, gnoe39@yahoo.com writes: << This week I saw on TV that a man intentionally used his car to run down children in a school yard.He only got two of them, I guess he couldn't reload fast enough. I did not hear anyone mention "car control" WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE????? >> I hear there is a movement to restrict ownership of 1967 Cadillacs. There will also be a five day waiting period and a background investigation before you can buy one. 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- ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01BE9E33.E1301CE0-- ------------------------------ Date: 14 May 1999 18:49:32 -0700 From: Subject: Re: MtMan-List: period recipes, drinks, camp life.... According to the folks at Gettsyburg Museum it was available after the big fight, some of the southern boys demanded enought gunpowder to make a brew before being moved to Federal encampments, per literature from this site! Buck > On Thu, 13 May 1999, EmmaPeel2@aol.com wrote: > > Just what WAS in that Taos Lightning? Ive heard it was made at Turley's Mill > and was basically whisky or grain alcohol with gunpowder! Is this true...and > wouldnt that be toxic? (Heaven forbid they light up a corncob pipe..) Is it > true that it was shipped all over the country? If so, wouldn't that have > stopped in 1847? Signup for your free USWEST.mail Email account http://www.uswestmail.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 20:46:58 EDT From: Casapy123@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Blanket shirts Charels Deas paints a picture of "John Jakes" with what certaily appears to be shirt made from a red blanket with black stripes at each end. It was painted in 1844. Of course you must conisder the artist's license argument. ------------------------------ End of hist_text-digest V1 #300 ******************************* - 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.