From: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com (hist_text-digest) To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #356 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 26 1999 Volume 01 : Number 356 In this issue: -       MtMan-List: "RONDEE" -       MtMan-List: flint lock fowler? -       Re: MtMan-List: flint lock fowler? -       MtMan-List: (no subject) -       Re: MtMan-List: Hudson's Bay Company Frontier Artists -       MtMan-List: Let's Start Talking ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:36:09 -0700 (PDT) From: George Noe Subject: MtMan-List: "RONDEE" Correction and adentum: Misspelled STERLING OK., NO electricity for tin teepees. Encourage period dress, but want to be's, trying to get started, don't have to meet ridged dress( really we,re pretty laid back, more fun and fellowship than ridged rules. G.R.N. === George R. Noe< gnoe39@yahoo.com > Watch your back trail, and keep your eyes on the skyline. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:41:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Pickert Subject: MtMan-List: flint lock fowler? Hey all, I am in the market for a blackpowder fowler and am wondering what the opinion on the list is on whats available. I have limited funds so am not looking to spend big bucks, no more than $300. Also I do want a flint lock> thanks in advance! Walks === Rick(Walks in the Night)Pickert __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:50:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "Frank V. Rago" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: flint lock fowler? Good Luck, I have been looking for a good deal on one for awhile and found that the more basic a muzzleloader is the more it costs. Best I found new was in kit form and it was still over $400.00 unless you want to go with the mass produced cva shotgun, 12 gauge, cap gun. I was thinking of purchasing one of these and stripping the stock and pulling off the plastic butt plate and dinging it up and then stripping the metal and browning it. Wrapping real sinew around the pistol grip area and around the forestock. Just thinking out loud. At 06:41 PM 8/24/99 -0700, you wrote: > >Hey all, I am in the market for a blackpowder fowler and am wondering >what the opinion on the list is on whats available. > >I have limited funds so am not looking to spend big bucks, no more than >$300. Also I do want a flint lock> > >thanks in advance! >Walks >=== > > > Rick(Walks in the Night)Pickert > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:00:44 -0500 From: Mike Rock Subject: MtMan-List: (no subject) Tom Orr, Please contact me off list. Thanks, Mike ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 07:33:03 -0600 From: agottfre@telusplanet.net (Angela Gottfred) Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Hudson's Bay Company Frontier Artists Laura Glise (Wind1838@aol.com) wrote: >I recently read about a "frontier artist" hired by the Hudson's Bay >Company: Paul Kane (1847). Does anyone know the name of any artists in >the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company prior to 1840? If I recall correctly, Kane didn't actually work for the HBC, he was just a freeloading hitchhiker who sweet-talked George Simpson into letting him tag along so he could be the Canadian George Catlin. Other HBC & Canadian fur trade artists active before 1840: William Richards, c. 1806-- painted a view of York Factory, and "A Man and his wife carrying a load of partridges to their tent" John Halkett, c. 1822-- HBC executive tossed off a watercolour sketch of his 'Canot du Maitre' (Montreal canoe). For works by these artists, see: Gilman, Carolyn. _Where Two Worlds Meet: The Great Lakes Fur Trade_. Minnesota Historical Society : St. Paul, 1982. ISBN 0-87351-156-5. Newman, Peter C. An Illustrated History of the Hudson's Bay Company (formerly Empire of the Bay). Viking Studio/Madison Press : Toronto, 1995. ISBN 0-670-86534-6. Williams, Glyndwyr. 'The Hudson's Bay Company and the Fur Trade : 1670-1820', _The Beaver_, Autumn 1983. Reprinted 1991. Peter Rindisbacher, c. 1822-- Swiss colonist for Lord Selkirk's settlement at Red River, Manitoba. Often imitated, never equalled. Josephy, Alvin M. (Jr.). _The Artist Was a Young Man : The Life Story of Peter Rindisbacher_. Amon Carter Museum : Fort Worth, Texas, 1970. George Back, 1819-1823, and Robert Hood, 1819-1821-- midshipmen & artists on Lt. John Franklin's overland arctic expedition. Color plates of their sketches are reproduced in their journals: Back, Admiral Sir George. _Arctic Artist : The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1822_. C. Stuart Houston, ed. Commentary by I. S. McLaren. McGill-Queen's University Press : Montreal, 1994. ISBN 0-7735-1181-4 Hood, Robert _To the Arctic by Canoe 1819-1821 : The Journal and Paintings of Robert Hood, Midshipman with Franklin_. C. Stuart Houston, ed. McGill-Queen's University Press : Montreal, 1974. ISBN 1-7735-1222-5. After 1840, but still active during the fur trade era: Frances Ann Hopkins William Armstrong Modern artists who have recreated historic fur trade scenes: Frederic Remington Charles Comfort Walter Phillips and last but not least, C.W. Jefferys I'm sure other folks will have more to add to this list! Your humble & obedient servant, Angela Gottfred agottfre@telusplanet.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:28:02 -0700 From: "larry pendleton" Subject: MtMan-List: Let's Start Talking ! Ok guys, let's get some serious discussion going. It's been dead on here way too long. Ya'll don't want to wait till Dennis, Lanney, and I have to start something. Pendleton ------------------------------ End of hist_text-digest V1 #356 ******************************* - To unsubscribe to hist_text-digest, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe hist_text-digest" in the body of the message.