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***Warning long read and not directed at anyone in particular***
Something to consider here...
Is just how far do you want to go with historically correctness....?
Starting with the basic fact that more than likely you drove to the hunting area / rendezvous with your truck or car.
Most folks don't ride in on a horse* or go up the Missouri in a boat.
Also no matter how historic correct you are...
You are still pretending.
You do not run the risk of taking a Blackfoot arrow while running a trap line...
Nor will the Crows steal your outfit...
The Shawnee won't chase you out of their hunting grounds.
You are not Daniel Boone or Kit Carson.
Getting a historically correct outfit is expensive in both time and money.
Finding and buying a correct firearm and outfit is difficult as well.
Many times you will have to make or modify an existing outfit to make it work for historically correctness.
Which again is expensive...in time , money , plus one needs the skill to do so.
All of which can turn off someone from doing so.
Something else to consider with a historically correct outfit is time and place...
Say you are striving to be a Long Hunter circa 1768...
What was seen , used and commonly available in Boston then....may ( would ) not be the same for a frontier settlement in Virginia.
Same for a western fur trapper in 1838....
A hired trapper working for the American Fur Company , will not be outfitted the same for a hunter working out of Bent's Fort,
Some modern things need to be allowed...
Medicine , as simple as aspirin or as complex as EPI pen
Toilet paper is a plus too...
I have a good friend who is in his 70's with some health issues...
Should I tell him that he can't play , because in his tent , hidden under wool blankets is his air mattress....?
Also and perhaps most important ....
So what...?
As in So what if someone shows up at rendezvous and he is a old white guy wearing a chrome tanned Mandan war shirt..
Plastic beads glued all over it...while wearing a dead critter for a hat...
Shooting a tacked up Thompson Center Hawken rifle...
If he ain't hurting anyone so what....?
Now to be honest here...
I did indeed start showing my display to "combat" , so to speak images like the above.
I did so , because the above is not what or how things were done...and to portray the above as being just like Kit Carson...
Does history a dis-service.
However it is not my place to nit pick that man in public or "correct" him...
Or look down upon him and think that I am somehow "better" than him.
Sorry for the long read...
Andy
* Yes I do know of folks who "pack in" on their horses to rendezvous ...or even walk in as I have....
Something to consider here...
Is just how far do you want to go with historically correctness....?
Starting with the basic fact that more than likely you drove to the hunting area / rendezvous with your truck or car.
Most folks don't ride in on a horse* or go up the Missouri in a boat.
Also no matter how historic correct you are...
You are still pretending.
You do not run the risk of taking a Blackfoot arrow while running a trap line...
Nor will the Crows steal your outfit...
The Shawnee won't chase you out of their hunting grounds.
You are not Daniel Boone or Kit Carson.
Getting a historically correct outfit is expensive in both time and money.
Finding and buying a correct firearm and outfit is difficult as well.
Many times you will have to make or modify an existing outfit to make it work for historically correctness.
Which again is expensive...in time , money , plus one needs the skill to do so.
All of which can turn off someone from doing so.
Something else to consider with a historically correct outfit is time and place...
Say you are striving to be a Long Hunter circa 1768...
What was seen , used and commonly available in Boston then....may ( would ) not be the same for a frontier settlement in Virginia.
Same for a western fur trapper in 1838....
A hired trapper working for the American Fur Company , will not be outfitted the same for a hunter working out of Bent's Fort,
Some modern things need to be allowed...
Medicine , as simple as aspirin or as complex as EPI pen
Toilet paper is a plus too...
I have a good friend who is in his 70's with some health issues...
Should I tell him that he can't play , because in his tent , hidden under wool blankets is his air mattress....?
Also and perhaps most important ....
So what...?
As in So what if someone shows up at rendezvous and he is a old white guy wearing a chrome tanned Mandan war shirt..
Plastic beads glued all over it...while wearing a dead critter for a hat...
Shooting a tacked up Thompson Center Hawken rifle...
If he ain't hurting anyone so what....?
Now to be honest here...
I did indeed start showing my display to "combat" , so to speak images like the above.
I did so , because the above is not what or how things were done...and to portray the above as being just like Kit Carson...
Does history a dis-service.
However it is not my place to nit pick that man in public or "correct" him...
Or look down upon him and think that I am somehow "better" than him.
Sorry for the long read...
Andy
* Yes I do know of folks who "pack in" on their horses to rendezvous ...or even walk in as I have....
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