The Buffalo Trace 1765

I set up this Page to help organize the information I use to document the gear/clothing I use to portray a Market Hunter (aka "Long hunter") operating out of Fort Pitt And Kaskaskia in the 1760's. It's morphed into a catch all for anything that interests me on researching the 18th century backcountry and then trying to put into practice the information I find. This is the Buffalo Trace Part 2.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Doddridge's Powder blue tuxedo was cut in the common fashion

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                So My plan is to knock roughly two of these out a week until the ADD kicks in. One full of abstract weirdness, information...
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Leggings...The basics

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Leggings Caldwell legging...small pieces at bottom are what's left of stirrups Caldwell leather leggings...little cut out o...
Friday, September 29, 2017

I bet if you tolld Henry Harmon he was wearing" town pants" he'd smack you.

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Gabriel Bray If leather breeches are the blue jeans of the 18 th century then that makes trousers   the cargo pants. I’ve been a...
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Once hunters farewell to the plough. The chase renders them ferocious, gloomy, and unsociable

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  Hide frames can lead to Narnia "The worst of them are those that have degenerated altogether into the hunting state.....
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