Re: MtMan-List: The Great 1830 Hunting Pouch Search & Contest

[sean@naplesnet.com (Addison O. Miller)]

Next month I am going to the Museum of the Fur Trade.  If there is a
shooters pouch there, rest assured I will take MANY pictures of it, and make
them available on my WWW page and send you all the address so you can DL any
pix of it you would like.  Hope this will help and you all can wait that long...

Addison Miller

>Washtahay-
>	OK folks.  We've had a lot of palaver over one small feature of one bag
>the last few days.  So lets get down to brass tacks on this.  I want to
>locate an original hunting pouch that we can document as having been in use
>on the frontier in the years 1825 to 1835, with the target date of 1830.
>Here are the criteria the bag must meet:
>	"Frontier" is defined as Rocky Mountains, Santa Fe trade, Texas, or the
>Missouri River trade.  We should probably include bags in use in the St
>Louis area and west within Missouri.  While I would love to hear about the
>bags in use in the North during this time, that isn't the target area.  
>	"Document" is defined as being able to objectively date as having been in
>use in the area defined as "Frontier".  By objectively, I mean by
>contemporary records or a chain of evidence.  The assignment of dates, for
>example Madison Grant's "ca 1820-1840" does NOT count, unless supported by
>other available information (an example being the bag he shows on pp 74-75
>of KRHP).  If you can come up with a bag that went with the supply trains
>to Rendezvous, great!  But the bag used by some famous mountain man in the
>late 1850s isn't what we are looking for.
>	The bag must be published or accessible to the public.  The folks on the
>list must have some way of accessing the bag, to examine and evaluate it
>for their own purposes.  Be prepared to furnish supporting documentation.  
>
>	Prize?  Immortal fame isn't enough?  How about a rum horn and horn cup?
>Copied after the canteen shown on p 142  and the bottom cup on p 144 of
>"The Powder Horn and its Architecture".  
>	Let's run this for a week or so and see what comes out of the woodwork.
>Judge's decisions are final.  Hawk, John Kramer-are you guys willing to
>help me judge this?
>
>Let the hunt begin!
>LongWalker c. du B.
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