"WHITE WOMEN AND WHISKEY" REALLY?"

[flashpoint]

Just caught the movie Mountain Men with Charlton Heston and Brian Keith. I thought it was really pretty good and the scenery was gorgeous of course. Some things were very accurate and others, well, not so much. (Not sure if the Mountain Men in those days, had perfect, bright white teeth or not?? lol). But the Rendezvous info. that was written on the note they found that promised "White Women & Whiskey", proved to be pretty wild to say the least. Well now, I ain't never been to one, so I was wonderin' did any of the Rendezvous you've been to even come close to what was shown in the movie?? And don't worry, all your comments will be kept in the strictest confidence and no wives will ever read them. Flashpoint!

 

[deerstalkert]

can't remember. kinda like the 60's. if you were there you don't remember it.

 

[cornstalk]

Short answer is yes. A version like that was posted the year the white wives of the white missionaries accompanied the trade goods coming from Saint Louis. I can provide exact details later if no one else does but I’m exhausted from using the snow blower, again.

 

[flashpoint]

can't remember. kinda like the 60's. if you were there you don't remember it.

Oh so the 60s were to blame, huh?

Short answer is yes. A version like that was posted the year the white wives of the white missionaries accompanied the trade goods coming from Saint Louis. I can provide exact details later if no one else does but I’m exhausted from using the snow blower, again.

Sounds like that story could make a movie also.

 

[deerstalkert]

well it was the 60's the last rondy i attended. life got in the way shortly there after.

 

[FishDFly]

It was only 2.

What is a snow blower?

 

[Omahkapi'si]

It was only 2.

What is a snow blower?

…someone who operates an ice hut.

 

[FishDFly]

Oh, must a Northern thing.

 

[oldwood]

What is a snow blower? ? ? You must not live north of Tennessee/Kentucky ? Well ,if you're in the north , like Pa. , when the snow piles up , a snow blower is a device designed to make your muscles ache , but clears the driveway w/o shoveling. Depending how old you are, if you use it once , your muscles might take , three days to recover. Hope this helps...

 

[mushka]

Snow blowers and such is one of the reasons I moved here to southern Az.

 

[deerstalkert]

A SOUTHERNER MOVES NORTH ...
Monday: 5:00PM. It's starting to snow. The first of the season and the first one we've seen in years. The wife and I took our hot buttered rums and sat by the picture window, watching the soft flakes drift down, clinging to the trees and covering the ground. It was beautiful. So relaxing and peaceful.

Tuesday: We woke up to a lovely blanket of crystal white snow covering the landscape. What a fantastic sight. Every tree and shrub covered with a beautiful white mantle. I shoveled snow for the first time in years and loved it! I did both our driveway and our sidewalk. Later a city snowplow came along and accidentally covered up our driveway with snow from the street. The driver smiled and waved. I waved back and shoveled it again.

Wednesday: It snowed an additional 5 inched last night and the temperature dropped to around 11 degrees. Several limbs on the trees snapped due to weight of the snow. I shoveled our driveway again. Shortly afterwards the snowplow came by and did his trick again. I wonder about that guy. Why's he always smiling?

Thursday: Warmed up enough during the day to create some slush which turned to ice when the temperature dropped again. Bought snow tires for both cars. Fell on my ass in the driveway. $145 for the emergency room visit but nothing was broken. More snow and ice expected.

Friday: Still cold. Sold the wife's car and bought a 4X4 in order to get her to work. Slid into a guardrail and did a considerable amount of damage to the right rear quarter panel. Had another 8 inches of white **** last night. Both vehicles covered in salt and crud. More shoveling in store for me today. That goddamn snowplow came by twice today, smiling bastard.

Saturday: 2 degrees outside. More freaking snow. Not a tree or shrub on the property that hasn't been damaged. Power was off most of the night and some pipes burst in the basement. Tried to keep from freezing to death with candles and a kerosene heater which tipped over and nearly burned the house down. I managed to put out the flames but suffered 2nd degree burns on my hands and lost my eyebrows. Brand new 4X4 slid on the ice on way to the emergency room and was totaled.

Sunday: #@$%&^*! keeps coming down. Have to put on all clothes we own just to get to the freaking mailbox. I think the son-of-a-gun that drives the snowplow hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then comes down the street about 100MPH, grinning from ear to ear, and buries our driveway again. F^*%$er! If I ever catch him I'll shove a cane pole up his ass and mount him in the front yard as a warning to the next snowplow driver! Power still off. Toilet froze and part of the roof has started to cave in.

Monday: Six damn more freakin' inches of freakin' snow and freakin' ice and god knows what other kink of white freakin' **** fell last night. Wife left me. Car won't start. I think I'm going snowblind. I can't move my toes. Haven't seen the sun in weeks. I wounded the freakin' snowplow ******* with an ice ax but he got away. More freain' snow predicted. Wind chill minus 35 freakin' degrees. I'm going back to North Carolina!

 

[oldwood]

My wife wanted to move to a warm climate once , but I decided to wait on the promised "Global Warming". I told her she could go south ,but she hasn't left yet.

 

[Phil Coffins]

Nathaniel Wyeth took his wife to the 1834 rendezvous. The first white woman that far west.
Been to a couple of camps that came close. Things have gotten a lot tamer as the years have past, now most times folks never even bring a rifle.

 

[sheriff john]

Sounds like a lot of sinnin' took place back in those days. When they ran out of whiskey, well, they just ran out. But when they ran out of white women ....then what ?

 

[ppg1949]

To our friends who wonder why deerstalkert’s snow plow driver is always smiling, it is because he leaves a pile of hard packed snow well over a foot and half at the end of each driveway he passes by. The street is clean but you can’t get to it without shoveling his dump at the end of your drive. Our streets are cleaned at night. The plow driver is chuckling with glee as he plows knowing you will wake up to his mischief, lol. Still you have to admire their effort even if you regret the results.

 

[oldwood]

Hey Sheriff........ If the white women were absent , there might have been some Indian ladies present. Some tribes didn't shun their miscreant squaws ,and some forbade such behavior.

 

[deerstalkert]

there were definitely some Indian women around, or I wouldn't be here!

 

[cornstalk]

@deerstalkert thank you for taking me from grinning to laughing my ass off. Yep, that’s exactly how it is.

 

[1971fx]

I first attended the Harley rendezvous in 1980 in Saratoga New York the spirit was alive then.

 

[toot]

I would that only having a greasy old INDIAN woman for months on end a white woman is a cut above? jmho.