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Post subject: Getting started - what was it like for you
 Posted: Mar 21, 2005 - 07:17 PM
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Booshway
Joined: Jun 04, 2003
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Location: Hartford, Illinois
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Hey, do you remember what it was like starting out. I am looking for people to share their stories, the good, bad and the ugly.
I'll go first.
This was our second year camping, but the 1st time we setup the tipi. At the time we had just the one tipi, so my brother Larry (all my funny stories start with Larry  ) was staying with us. Well, we made our first camp at Kampsville's Old Settlers Days. Anyone that has ever been there knows what is coming next, rain lots of it. It rained, and rained and rained some more. We didn't know it at the time but we had set up in a low spot and water was coming under the liner into the tipi. So, we will trench around the outside right? Sounds like a good idea, well we didn't have a shovel, but we had a post hole digger, "We can use this, Larry said". So out goes Larry to start trenching in the pitch black night, Tracy was holding a lantern for him to see his way. Suddenly, I hear a "Oh Shoot" and a crash and a rip. Larry had slipped while using the post hole digger and fallen onto the tipi and ripped a huge hole in the back of it. I didn't know where the laugh or cry. So, I laughted, and laughted until I fell asleep, my husband said that I was even laughing in my sleep.
When, I woke up I fixed breakfast. After the second cup of coffee kicked in I started to sew up the tipi and dry everthing out. I figure it I made it throught that I could handle anything. |
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Post subject: What it was like for me.
Posted: Aug 05, 2005 - 01:04 PM
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Joined: Mar 09, 2004
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Location: Oklahoma.
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When I first started out, all I could find at the time was commercial leather for leggings, (  ) so I bought that without looking any further for braintan. I made everything else, or had it made; shirts, moccasins, long coats, fingerwoven sash and garters, bead work, silver, a silk scarf and beads. A lot of this was hard to come by, and eventually I learned how to do most of it myself. With help I from friends that go to events back East who knew where to get these items, I've found what I was looking for, and continued to buy quality items ever since.
Folks I've bought from, are;
Chuck Leonard (silversmith)
Joe DeLaRonde (knives, axes, etc)
Wes Housler (braintanned deer, elk and buffalo)
Mike Ameling (fire steels, etc)
Crazy Crow (wool, beads, etc)
I also did a lot of research, and collected pictures of everything I could find on pre-1850's Seminoles and Creeks from books, museums, private collections and auction cataloges.
All this has gotten to be expensive, but its worth it to me. Most of it was for silver, buffalo hides, wool and cloth.
A good friend once told me, "Its just as easy to do it right, as it is to do it wrong." I still live by that today.
That's what it was like for me...a little bad at first, but it got better!
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Post subject: RE: What it was like for me.
Posted: Sep 02, 2005 - 04:18 PM
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Joined: May 11, 2004
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| When I first started out it was the first or the second Gathering of the waters Rendezvous. There were only about a couple of camps and my pop up.. and It Poured and Poured down rain. We still had fun. Then I finally got some money and bought a wall tent from C&S Suttlery. Bought some painters pants and then bought a shirt and went to Dollar General and bought some leather slippers. Started out with hardly anything and now I have way too much stuff. It is amazing how much you acquire over the years. |
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Post subject: RE: What it was like for me.
Posted: Sep 19, 2005 - 05:40 PM
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Joined: Sep 15, 2005
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I got my interest in doing living history at Boy Scout summer camp. We had a Buck Skinner doing a presentation all summer long. I talked with him (can't remember his name) quite a bit that week. After summer camp I started doing walk throughs. At the different events I learned of more events that I could go to and collect more items. I found out that you cannot get all of the clothing in one year. It is too expensive. That was back in the 1980's. 11 years ago I dragged my wife to the Feast of the Hunters Moon. Sue was not really sure that she would like doing living history. After the Feast, Sue went whole hog on getting an outfit.
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Posted: Jun 08, 2008 - 01:00 AM
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Joined: Nov 04, 2007
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My moms boyfriend was a member of a local group in Tucson AZ and when i saw what they did I was just GAGA for it. He and the rest of the group fitted me with an outfit that a first year trapper wore and i started going to schools for demonstrations and doing parades. I moved to Missouri when i was 17 almost 18 and was going to some by my self at 17 like old mines the winter camp at baniel boone's home and of course the Fort. People back then did not know what to think of a 17 year old kid doing this on his own as most had to be dragged by their parents. I made a lot of friends and loved the people and keeping history alive. I had to quit while i've been serving my country but now am at a duty station to get going again and can't wait.  |
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