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Looking for thoughts/advice on what was the trappers beding. Besides blankets were canvas or oilskin bedrolls used?
You do not mention period or area, but there is plenty of primary documentation for the use of canvas & oilskins for shelter in the 18th & 19th century. However, canvas bed sheets did exist & were used by the middling sorts.Looking for thoughts/advice on what was the trappers beding. Besides blankets were canvas or oilskin bedrolls used?
Lewis Hector Garrard, Tenngun.Having a senior moment and can’t think of the name of the writer. But I recall in Wah Ta Yah and the Taos Trail how happy the writer was to get to sleep between sheets in a bed on a rolled out mattress in Taos.
Soldiers were at times issued bags that could serve as a mattress when filled with litter, but I don’t know of them in a MM or or frontier diary. Schoolcraft records making a bed under a bluff from litter.
They had to make some sort of beds beside just a blanket or a robe on the bare ground, but Schoolcraft the only one I can think of discribing it
Thanks AllYou do not mention period or area, but there is plenty of primary documentation for the use of canvas & oilskins for shelter in the 18th & 19th century. However, canvas bed sheets did exist & were used by the middling sorts.
Keith.
Yeah....and I think Ol' Bill had a reputation of .....enhancing (yeah....that's it....) the truth a bit, too.I think it was Bill Williams that bragged aboutnever having more then one blanket. That suggest multiple blankets was common.
He did make his living as a trapper. So he had skins and robes and of course saddle blankets.
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