From: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com (hist_text-digest) To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #410 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 Wednesday, November 17 1999 Volume 01 : Number 410 In this issue: -       MtMan-List: The Alamo -       Re: MtMan-List: Re: Wahintke (mystery solved) -       MtMan-List: Re: cordage -       Re: MtMan-List: Re: cordage -       MtMan-List: AMM AUCTION -       Re: MtMan-List: Bear -       MtMan-List: Osborne Russell, "Journal of a Trapper" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 13:22:57 -0500 (EST) From: JONDMARINETTI@webtv.net (JON MARINETTI) Subject: MtMan-List: The Alamo Several months back there was some controversy stirred up about getting a plaque erected at the site in honor of the 9 Tejanos who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the ~176 Texians (Groneman's book on A Genealogy of the Alamo Defenders names each one). Haven't heard how this turned out. Anybody on the list know? muchos gracias. - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:18:48 -0500 From: tom roberts Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Re: Wahintke (mystery solved) Thanks Henry, I was really beginning to wonder if my edition was just an apparition. Interesting comment about the plagarism since the Vol IV article is by the same author. Tom "Henry B. Crawford" wrote: > Mystery solved. Tom appears to have a first edition of BoBS vol III that > has the chapter on hide tanning. That chapter was omitted from the second > edition (that Kevin and I have) after it was discovered to have been > largely plagarized. Our page 93 is in the chapter on trade beads. > > Meanwhile, there is a good description of making a Wahintke (elk antler > hide scraper) in BoBS vol IV on pp. 72-74. I've made a couple and it's > pretty simple. The best blade is made from a file. Make one on a bench > grinder or have someone with a machine shop do you one. A fair substitute, > though not as good, is the blade from a wood plane with the sharp corners > ground off. Write me if you want details on how I made mine. > > Cheers, > HBC - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 20:00:17 -0800 From: John Dearing Subject: MtMan-List: Re: cordage > > > >If an campkeeper should be able to build a hair rope then I believe I = > >should be able to do it too. I have not been able to find instructions = > >anywhere else. Can anyone help me? > > >Among other questions I wonder should it be twisted or braided and how = > >do you group the hairs together without leaving weak spots? > > Try this URL for information on making cordage, weaving, etc.; > http://www.nativetech.org/cordage/index.html Be sure to access the links at the bottom of the page. J.D. - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 21:06:29 EST From: BarneyPFife@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Re: cordage The book "Naked Into The Wilderness, Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills" by John and Geri McPherson has a very well laid out and illustrated chapter on cordage, and I believe they have also put out a pamphlet on just that one chapter. It is published by Prairie Wolf P>O>Box 96, Randolph, Kansas 66554. Barn - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:20:32 -0500 From: deforge1@wesnet.com (Dennis Miles) Subject: MtMan-List: AMM AUCTION Sorry for the intrusion all.... We have a couple new things on the Auction for your perusal... www.wesnet.com/deforge1/Auction.htm Thanks D - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:55:15 EST From: WSmith4100@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Bear Amen to that Big John well said I ve been down that road too. Condolences to the Colonel. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ Sleeps loudly - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:28:49 -0500 From: "Laura Glise" Subject: MtMan-List: Osborne Russell, "Journal of a Trapper" For those of you that have worn out your paperback copy of Russell's Journal of a Trapper, I recently found a hardback copy. It is published by MJF Books Fine Communications Two Lincoln Square 60 West 66th Street New York, NY 10023 ISBN 1-56731-173-3 This edition is published by arrangement with the University of Nebraska Press A nice gift for the hard-to-buy-for mountaineer on your Christmas list. Laura Glise Wind1838@aol.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Access your e-mail anywhere, at any time. 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