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BUCKHORN RENDEZVOUS
"A camp blanket of wares"
Proprietor * Buck Conner
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"One who trades” |
"Uno quién negocia" |
“Unqui commerce” |
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English |
Spanish |
French |
* PO Box 27155 * Masonville, Colo. * USA *
EXPERIENCE THE FUR TRADE
* CATALOGUE #12*
On sale, with
period camp wares, personal items, trade goods, muzzle loading supplies,
rifle and pistols - finished, 100% in the white and kits, muzzle loading parts
by all the popular makers and much, much more.
OVER 1500 documented items pertaining to shooting, camp life, the settlements and used on the frontier. $ 5.00 postage included.
| To read their list of goods
offered, one feels as though they are standing at the counter of a pre-
1840 St. Louis trading post or they are preparing to place an order to
the stores of George Morgan during the 18th century. It seems that you
can find any thing you might need in the way of foods and grains for
your trek on the trail as well as period correct cookware, copper, tin,
and iron. Buckhorn Rendezvous has given us a much needed source for
authentic early American food-stuff and I encourage you to write for
their list. Their prices are as fair as one could hope for. Thanks Buck.
Rick Edwards, Editor |
Have dealt with Buckhorn Rendezvous several times, ordering a variety of period-correct foodstuffs. There catalog is a treat, for he spices up the lists of grains, teas, coffee, sugars and cookware with quotes from original documents that put the food he offers into a particular time and place. When I review his catalog, I can imagine what the shelves and barrels of George Morgan's Kaskaskia store might have displayed during a typical day in 1768. Mark Baker, A
Pilgrim's Journey |
Authenticity is what
Buckhorn Rendezvous is a little hard to
explain because they aren't only in the business of selling, it is also
a how-to of what was eaten in yesteryear, how to prepare it ,and little
known facts about what foods were popular in those days. One thing is
certain, if you want period food, tin and copperware, toiletries,
blankets, grains, teas, sweets and fire building, smoking, sewing ,
books and writing supplies, then it behooves you to get their list and
catalog.
Charlie
Richie, Editor |
| Experience Conner's
Buckhorn Rendezvous, visit the 18th and early 19th century
period camp wares, personal items,
trade goods, muzzle loading supplies, rifle and pistols - finished, 100% in the
white and kits, muzzle loading parts by all the popular makers and much, much
more from
one that deals in only early camp equipage.
James
Rubinfine, Editor |
Looking at what is offered by
Buckhorn Rendezvous, will really opens the
reenactors eyes to what a variety of items were available for different
time periods. What we liked, is they deal as stated, "camp life
equipage", weapons, foods, mill items and camp supplies of early North
America. What a great find for the serious historical interpreter.
William Eaton, Field
Editor |
INFORMATION OF INTEREST
The few items described below is to give you a small taste of what was being sent from the East to the new frontier, by our citizens and citizens from other lands. Edibles were big business as were all the other needed supplies.
This information is from many issues of the Museum of the Fur Trade micro-film at St. Louis museums and several other Fur Trade sources, and are found many references from 1803, 1822, 1825,1826, 1832, 1834, 1835, 1837 and 1839 as to a number of the items available.
The first listings are just a small sampling of "Supply Invoices" from 1822, 1825, 1835.
The second items you will find are a sampling of remarks of from few historic persons of that era, and their thoughts about some edibles.
The third is a sampling of some information on field seeds, vegetables, herbs and apples, together with a little history on the more popular ones.
Looking over this information, and
considering the amount of trade that was going on out of St.Louis, it is a
pretty slim inventory for a variety of edibles when you consider what was
actually available during those years.
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1822
From a Trade List of John McKnight /
Partner of General Thomas James:
5 lbs Glauber Salts 1 dz peppermint
1 Box wafers 12 lbs sugar
1 (?) Hyson tea 1 (?) Bohea tea
1 (?) China Black tea
Entered Oct 21st & 29th 1822
Purchased of the American Fur Co. St. Louis / Samuel Abbott Agent
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1825
Inventory of Goods available at the
1825 Rendezvous on Henry's Fork of the Green River, from Wm. Ashley's diary:
2 bags coffee 1 hams goods
2 Tobacco 2 packs sugar
2.5 kegs tea
Tobacco 150lbs.
3 Bags coffee 200 lbs.
130 lbs Bale & Bag Sugar
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1835
Invoice of merchandise shipped on the Steam Boat Diana, C.A. Halstead Master, bound for the Upper Missouri River and Consigned to Messr Laidlaw and Lamont for the account and risk of the Upper Missouri Outfit, 1835.
U.M.O. Pierre
4 boxes Y.H. tea 5 loaves ( ? ) sugar
2 boxes shaving soap 4 boxes com soap
1 barrel rice 4 bales oakum
2 barrels water crackers 2 barrels each navy pilot bread
1/2 barrels molasses Keg 50 15 gls 1 hlf barrel mackreal
? bottle pepper sauce 2 boxes raisins
2 boxes cod fish 1 Lexington mustard
2 lb refined borax 1/2 dz. lime juice
2 oz nut megs 2 oz cloves
1/2 dz. ground ginger 1 gal blue grass seed (for a Factor)
7 kegs 6 twist to pound tobacco
2 kegs 2 twist to pound tobacco
1 keg 1 twist to pound tobacco 5 kegs 8 twist to pound tobacco
7 boxes brown Havana sugar 5 sacks Grod Al Salt 1 box cavandish tobacco 10
barrel pork
6 bags coffee 1 barrel bacon hams
40 barrels flour
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HISTORICAL REMARKS AS TO CERTAIN EDIBLES
Who said; "meat’s meat?" Many people in the "know" claim that Bridger made the statement on a return trip from the shining mountains. However, you may be surprised to learn that in fact it was a very common term made by many, famous and not-so-famous starving men of that and earlier eras!
Osborn Russell reported that "beaver feeding on wild parsnips were poisonous and those that ate of the meat, within a few hours became sick at the stomach and the whole system became cramped..." |
Rev. Samuel Parker said "that while flesh of the beaver was usable, the fore part is of a land animal while the hind part is of the taste of fish like..." |
William Ashley’s journal of May 28, 1824 records that "during the last two days we have lived on fish we caught with hooks and lines..." Hooks and lines were often mentioned on lists of supplies by traders. |
A SAMPLING ABOUT CULTIVATED EDIBLES.
As you do your research on edible foods, wild and planted, you will find that a large number of the available varieties came from Pennsylvania Germans, who brought them from their home lands in Europe from as early as the 1500’s.
| Field Seeds
Flax: Has been grown in the colonies as early as 1560’s, used for linen cloth and a number of other cloth by products. Ariane Flax seed is available today...................... Spelt: A form of wheat with a little difference in texture, was originally from Europe but found its way to the colonies when settled. Spelt Mills were popular during the 1800's in .............. Gourds: In colonial America, old Mexico and parts of Europe, gourds have been used for a number of storage vessels. They have been cooked, fried, boiled or any other way you can ........... |
Vegetables
Beans: Beans were often planted with corn and squash, called "Three Sisters" plantings, the colonists used this Indian method as early as the 1650's. Fisher, Smith, Hutterite and Jacob's .............. Beets: Native to Europe and N. Africa, their first appearance in N. America is not clear, but reference has been made of them in journals dating to the early 1600's. ................. Carrots: Member of the parsley family, came to South and North America from Europe and Asia, in the form of animal fodder, with the colonies employment in the early settlements .... |
Herbs These
herbs are used as medicine, seasonings or just for decoration, all have
been dated earlier than 1800.
Caraway: Has some medical uses, licorice taste used on rye bread by early colonists............. Horehound: Used in teas, candy for sore throat problems ............. Sweet Cicely: Licorice flavor used in cooking for seasoning. |
Apples
Baldwin Woodpecker: Found in history around the mid 1700's in southern part of Massachusetts. Fameuse-Snow Apple: From Canada originally brought there by seed from France around 1600. Jonathan: A New York farm apple grown as early as 1800. |
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