horsecavalryman
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- Joined
- Mar 1, 2019
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I started doing "Living History" in 1976. I had been a Pre Press supervisor for World Color Press in Effingham Il. Printers of Petersons Guns and Ammo and Shooting Times. Bought my first Muzzleloader in High School From the builder. Still have it.
When the American Bicentennial happened I had a Miroku,Tower Musket and IAB,Sharps Carbine as well as a Uberti 2nd. Mdl. Dragoon, cal 44. I visited Fort Des. Chartres, http://www.fortdechartres.us/ When one of the Marines picked up his tankard and drank next to a be-wigged Officer, I was hooked. I joined Ste. Annes Parroise Militia. I'm still a member of that organization. Lest you think the French never got to the rockies. Two "Cadet" sons of a prairie post traveled to present area of Sheridan WY in 1734 with Pawnees on Horseback. They didn't find the inland sea. They returned to a french post at present day Winnipeg, first horses on the Canadian prairie. Of course the next French and Indian War put the end to these wanderings. If the plains tribes had been trading with French traders the history of the region would have been dramatically changed. French colonial policy was to trade firearms. Not cheap ones but beautiful fusils. This weaned their customers of rapid fire bow and arrows and made them dependent on powder, lead, and gunsmithing.
Well may trails sense and I'm still doing Living History at Bent's Old Fort, Fort Uncomphadre, and El Rancho des Los Golandrinas near Sante Fe. NM.
My Homer Dangler built Plains Rifle
This is an additional quote from Homer Dangler's web site re: American Longrifles Plain Vs. Fancy
"I feel the Kentucky rifle is a beautiful work of folk art, not to be compared to the fine European guns made for royalty, which were re-pleat with silver wire and precious stones.
I strongly hope that in the years to come the contemporary builders of the Kentucky rifle keep it true to form and not co-mingle too much with the ornate English designs. Very few Kentucky rifles had silver wire, and most had none."
When the American Bicentennial happened I had a Miroku,Tower Musket and IAB,Sharps Carbine as well as a Uberti 2nd. Mdl. Dragoon, cal 44. I visited Fort Des. Chartres, http://www.fortdechartres.us/ When one of the Marines picked up his tankard and drank next to a be-wigged Officer, I was hooked. I joined Ste. Annes Parroise Militia. I'm still a member of that organization. Lest you think the French never got to the rockies. Two "Cadet" sons of a prairie post traveled to present area of Sheridan WY in 1734 with Pawnees on Horseback. They didn't find the inland sea. They returned to a french post at present day Winnipeg, first horses on the Canadian prairie. Of course the next French and Indian War put the end to these wanderings. If the plains tribes had been trading with French traders the history of the region would have been dramatically changed. French colonial policy was to trade firearms. Not cheap ones but beautiful fusils. This weaned their customers of rapid fire bow and arrows and made them dependent on powder, lead, and gunsmithing.
Well may trails sense and I'm still doing Living History at Bent's Old Fort, Fort Uncomphadre, and El Rancho des Los Golandrinas near Sante Fe. NM.
My Homer Dangler built Plains Rifle
This is an additional quote from Homer Dangler's web site re: American Longrifles Plain Vs. Fancy
"I feel the Kentucky rifle is a beautiful work of folk art, not to be compared to the fine European guns made for royalty, which were re-pleat with silver wire and precious stones.
I strongly hope that in the years to come the contemporary builders of the Kentucky rifle keep it true to form and not co-mingle too much with the ornate English designs. Very few Kentucky rifles had silver wire, and most had none."