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Interesting/useful links & information Jan 23, 2019 10:48:45 GMT -7 Keith, brokennock, and 1 more like this

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Blogs
A Woodsrunner's Diary - woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/
The French in Wisconsin - frenchinwisconsin.com/
Montanan/Dakotan - montanandakotan.blogspot.com/
The Buffalo Trace - buffalotrace1765.blogspot.com/2010/10/moccasin-makingrepair-kitor-i-need-to.html

Vendors
Kootenai River Traders (Purveyors of fine 18-19th Century Clothing, Gear and Guns) - email mmorain@frontiernet.net for further information
Wick Ellerbe Knives - www.wickellerbe.com/
Scarlet Scarab - www.scarletscarab.com/index2.htm
William Booth Draper - www.wmboothdraper.com/
Wooded Hamlet (sewing supplies) - www.woodedhamlet.com/
Bethlehem Trading Post (18th Century Clothing & Equipment) - bethlehemtradingpost.com/
Handmade Traditional Fishhooks - ronnlucassr.com/
Jim Chambers Flintlocks, Ltd. - www.flintlocks.com/
Jamestown Glass - www.eparks.com/store/home/1191/Jamestown-Glass/

Videos/Documentaries
Jas Townsend & Sons - www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson/videos
Primitive Technology - www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA/videos
Ishi (Yahi Indian) Documentary - www.youtube.com/watch?v=eflB9VwfKHA
Frontier: Legends of the Old Northwest - www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SGCiosLiKs
The War that Made America (PBS) - www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4ssRiyJKBMbj-FrSZ6pxRGvNPFNddEGu

Useful Websites
Fort Union (MT/ND) - www.nps.gov/fous/index.htm
Rocky Mountain College board - rockymtncollege.proboards.com/
The Kentucky Rifle - ehcnc.org/decorative-arts/historic-trades/the-kentucky-rifle/
Gun Hammers vs. Buttonhole Cutters - ehcnc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Gun-Hammers.pdf
Working with Horn - www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/horn/hornhome.html
The 18th Century Material Culture Resource Center - materialculture18t.wixsite.com/18thcmcrc
Eric Kettenburg's Traditional Finishes article from Muzzleblasts - www.muzzleblasts.com/archives/vol5no2/articles/mbo52-1.shtml
Native American Technology and Art - www.nativetech.org/
Lewis & Clark Portable Soup Recipe - preparednessadvice.com/recipes/portable-soups-carried-lewis-clark-make/
Portable Soup Recipe - www.wwnorton.com/pob/SpottedD/psoup.htm
Portable Soup Recipe - lostcookbook.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/portable-soup/
Portable Soup Recipe - www.vintagerecipes.net/books/ladys_own_cookery_book/portable_soup_1.php
American Engraved Powderhorns - metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/American_Engraved_Powder_Horns
Iron & Steel in Colonial America - flintriflesmith.com/WritingandResearch/WebArticles/ironandsteel.htm
Hammerpoll & Rifleman's Axes - tatcalite.tripod.com/id42.htm
Revolutionary War Soldier's Rations - www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-food-that-fueled-the-american-revolution-25701053/
David Thompson's Narrative - archive.org/stream/davidthompsonsna00thom#page/n5/mode/2up
Sons of a Trackless Forest: The Cumberland Long Hunters of the Eighteenth Century (Mark Baker's MS Thesis) - digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4681/
Maize Meal Cookery (book) - babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89047405097;view=1up;seq=1;size=150
Rattle-Skull, Stonewall, Bogus, Blackstrap, Bombo, Mimbo, Whistle Belly, Syllabub, Sling, Toddy, and Flip: Drinking in Colonial America (Colonial Williamburg) - www.history.org/foundation/journal/holiday07/drink.cfm
Textiles Collection (Colonial Williamsburg) - emuseum.history.org/view/objects/asitem/classification@6/0/title-asc?t:state:flow=f4fa896a-e23c-4a8a-8d2c-742cfe683edf
The “new Invented Napsack and haversack,” 1776 - www.scribd.com/doc/217351637/The-new-Invented-Napsack-and-haversack-1776
Making the Deathshead Thread Button - www.woodedhamlet.com/howto_advice/deathshead_instruc.htm
Making a Dorset Thread Button - www.potterwrightandwebb.co.uk/dorset/how-to-make-a-dorset-button
Hunting Shirts (Neal Hurst's Thesis) - www.academia.edu/3336557/_kind_of_armour_being_peculiar_to_America_The_American_Hunting_Shirt
Sailmaker's Tools - www.frayedknotarts.com/sailmaking2.html
Diderot's Encyclopedia - quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/
Tom Wnuck Collection - www.cottoneauctions.com/oldsite/old/TomWnuck/wnuck-accoutrements&accessories.htm
Tinder Fungus Information - colonialbaker.net/tinderfungus.html
Lewis & Clark Recipe for Beaver Lure - www.manuellisaparty.com/articles/pfd's/Beaver%20Bait%20from%20the%20journals%20of%20Lewis%20and%20Clark.pdf
Art of AJ Miller - www.alfredjacobmiller.com/artworks/
Sealing wax receipts - codesmiths.com/shed/workshop/recipes/sealingwax.htm

Books
Tidings from the 18th Century by Beth Gilgun, Scurlock Publishing
A Pilgrim's Journey - Volume I & II by Mark Baker, Scurlock Publishing
Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Part of Virginia and Pennsylvania from the Year 1763 to 1783 Inclusive by Joseph Doddridge
Craft Manual of North American Indian Footwear by George White
Native American Moccasins, A Craft Manual by George White
Costume Close-up - Clothing Construction and Pattern 1750-1790 by Linda Baumgarten, John Watson & Florine Carr
The Cut of Men's Clothes: 1600-1900 by Norah Waugh
The Cut of Women's Clothes: 1600-1930 by Norah Waugh
Recreating the 18th Century Powder Horn by Scott & Kathy Sibley
The Northwest Gun by Charles Hanson
In the Image of A.J. Miller by Shawn Webster

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Interesting/useful links & information Feb 6, 2019 8:41:54 GMT -7 Black Hand and Keith like this

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The linked site is a European one with a focus on middle and upper class garments of the 1700's through the late 1800s. There are several very useful guides on how to construct basic garments, their fit, period materials, and other details. Check the sections listed under the site masthead for period and items of interest.

www.marquise.de/en/1700/i_herstellung.shtml

Another very useful book on clothing is Ellen Gehret's, "Rural Pennsylvania Clothing, being a study of the wearing apparel of the German and English inhabitants, both men and women, who resided in southeastern Pennsylvania in the late 18th and early 19th Century." Shumway Publishing, York, PA. First printing 1976. 2005 edition.

Gehret's book has patterns, construction details, and how to instructions for every piece of clothing needed to complete an impression of a common man or women, (ca 1780s through 1820s). Also included are photographs of surviving examples in private and museum collections. Still in print, and anyone interested in making their own clothing, I'd rate this as a "must have" source. There is even a short section covering shoe-making.

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Interesting/useful links & information Feb 6, 2019 16:30:12 GMT -7 Black Hand and straekat like this

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Primitive Fire Lighting Ebook.

woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/2015/03/my-book-primitive-fire-lighting-ebook.html

Video channel by the same author: www.youtube.com/user/historicaltrekking/videos?view_as=subscriber
Keith.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
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Interesting/useful links & information Feb 9, 2019 11:03:09 GMT -7

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Newly made items stand out, particularly when everything else you are wearing shows wear, tears, and repairs. One way to make leather items look worn and taken care of, rather than "ridden hard and put up wet" is described here:

Aging or distressing leather.pdf (110.62 KB)

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Interesting/useful links & information Feb 9, 2019 15:51:11 GMT -7 Black Hand likes this

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If interested in a specific book, the search engine "bookfinder.com" checks thousands of sites. It is Mrs Coot's (ex reference librarian) go-to search & covers new, used & out of print books & will list results by price if desired. The one site that bookfinder does not seem to check is Ebay.

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Interesting/useful links & information Feb 15, 2019 6:21:53 GMT -7 Black Hand likes this

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Free downloadable books in pdf format. These are primary documents covering contemporary travelers and explorers reports (by way of example the entire Lewis and Clark journals are on-line through this site).

www.americanjourneys.org/

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Interesting/useful links & information Mar 3, 2019 12:18:47 GMT -7 Black Hand likes this

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This is mostly a "mountain/man" fur trade era site, and has several articles that are related to gear, clothing, how to's, and documents. Some of the material is very informative.

www.manuellisaparty.com/

The index files can be searched directly though these links:

www.manuellisaparty.com/articles/

www.manuellisaparty.com/articles/pfd's/

Black Hand Administrator Posts: 2,070	Interesting/useful links & information Mar 3, 2019 13:02:42 GMT -7 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Black Hand on Mar 3, 2019 13:02:42 GMT -7 The www.manuellisaparty.com/articles/pfd's/ address shows as dead. But if you go to the link above it and scroll down to pfd's, you'll be able to access the files.
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Interesting/useful links & information Mar 11, 2019 16:48:21 GMT -7 Black Hand likes this

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The Lewis and Clark voyage of discovery focused on the exploration of the "Louisiana Territory" purchased from France, by the American government in 1803 is the subject if many books, articles, etc. Meriwether Lewis and William Rogers Clark are American icons who helped open the American West to settlement.

"We Progressed Onward" is a journal dedicated to the voyage and all things "Luigi and Carlo" (my pet names for the two men) related subjects. The first journal appeared in the late 1970s and there have been four issues every year since. These are available on-line, and can be downloaded free courtesy of the organization/journal staff. Each issue has been scanned and digitalized. Most can be word searched. Without further adieu...

www.lewisandclark.org/wpo/pdf/

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Interesting/useful links & information Apr 13, 2019 10:07:45 GMT -7 via mobile

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I know Tandy can be a "go to" place for leather crafting stuff due to their name recognition. They are somewhat limited in selection in certain departments though. One thing I've found elsewhere that they don't have are strips/straps of leather thin enough and long enough to be used as a single piece strap for a shot pouch or shooting bag.
Enter, Zack White's,
www.zackwhite.com/vegetable-tanned-leather-strips-xl-length

I've used this for my last couple bags and once the stiffness is broken out of them and some mink oil is worked into the rough side (after dye is applied to the smooth side) they are great.

hawkeyes Moderator Forest-dweller Posts: 1,863	Interesting/useful links & information Apr 13, 2019 11:33:40 GMT -7 via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by hawkeyes on Apr 13, 2019 11:33:40 GMT -7 Excellent resources gents, can't figure out how you all put pages and pages of info together! Geezz I can't even figure out how to do anything besides copy and paste or post images!
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Interesting/useful links & information Apr 13, 2019 17:19:11 GMT -7

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Apr 13, 2019 11:33:40 GMT -7 hawkeyes said:

Excellent resources gents, can't figure out how you all put pages and pages of info together! Geezz I can't even figure out how to do anything besides copy and paste or post images!

Laptop...
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Last Edit: Apr 13, 2019 17:20:07 GMT -7 by Black Hand

"Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained."
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hawkeyes Moderator Forest-dweller Posts: 1,863	Interesting/useful links & information Apr 14, 2019 4:38:03 GMT -7 via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by hawkeyes on Apr 14, 2019 4:38:03 GMT -7 You possibly may talk me into one of these devices... Just maybe...
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Interesting/useful links & information Jul 7, 2019 20:50:40 GMT -7 via mobile Black Hand and Keith like this

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Not my find, I picked it up from another site. Worthy of sharing in my opinion. Library of Western Fur Trade Historical Source Documents. Just click on the links on the main page for many books and journals available in PDF

www.mtmen.org/mtman/mmarch.html

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Interesting/useful links & information Jul 7, 2019 21:08:08 GMT -7 via mobile Black Hand and nwterritorywoodsman like this

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Surprised to notice that I missed something missing the 1st time I read the original post here.....

home.insightbb.com/~bspen/

Bob's Blackpowder Notebook, I've learned a lot there, and enjoyed some good reading there quite often over the years. It has been a great influence on me. Thank you Spence.

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