Buffalo Hunter's Camp Lighting, Redux

[Dutch Limbach]

Will,

I have seen a wooden candle lantern catch on fire. The lanterns owner was teravelling through camp and had stopped to talk to a couple of us. When he did he set thelantern down on some uneven ground. Eventually the candle fell over inside the lantern so that the flame from the candle laid against on of the upright posts which then caught fire and was in the process of starting the top of the lantern on fire when we discovered it. Had it happened unattended in a tent I have no doubt it would have burned the lodge down.

Funny thing about primitive encampments is nobody ever has a fire extingusher.

[Mick Archer]

  Howdy Pards!
 
   Seriously, thank Goodness no one was injured!

   Notso seriously, the shrapnel from exploding soda pop cans, and fumes from plastic cups, can also be dangerous.    

   Mick Archer
   Who has been to a couple of events where grass fires have consumed canvas tents...

[Pitspitr]

"...That was the first stampede I was in. The second ... I lose sleep over it to this day when I think of what a narrow squeak we had that Sunday morning when our camp was overrun. The way it happened was this. Our camp was on the North Canadian. The month was August, 1873, but I have forgotten the exact date. It isn't important. Only I know it was on a Sunday because we were all present.
I had just finished reloading a batch of hulls, and was thinking of going out and getting an antelope for camp meat, when I heard a low rumbling like distant thunder. ..."

From The Buffalo Harvest by Frank Mayer and Charles B. Roth page 70

[Delmonico]

Have thought a couple times that I need to get a fire extingusher and put it in my box of unmentionables.  Be my luck though if someone's tent caught on fire and I saved it theyed be POed at me a call me a Farbee.

"...That was the first stampede I was in. The second ... I lose sleep over it to this day when I think of what a narrow squeak we had that Sunday morning when our camp was overrun. The way it happened was this. Our camp was on the North Canadian. The month was August, 1873, but I have forgotten the exact date. It isn't important. Only I know it was on a Sunday because we were all present.
I had just finished reloading a batch of hulls, and was thinking of going out and getting an antelope for camp meat, when I heard a low rumbling like distant thunder. ..."

From The Buffalo Harvest by Frank Mayer and Charles B. Roth page 70

Do you 'spose that each camp and each individual hunter was different and unique in their own ways and did things as they thought best and they damned well pleased?  After all I haven't seen yet where anyone has came up with a Field Manual with the Rules and Regs for Buffalo Hunters.  

[Pitspitr]

Do you 'spose that each camp and each individual hunter was different and unique in their own ways and did things as they thought best and they damned well pleased?  After all I haven't seen yet where anyone has came up with a Field Manual with the Rules and Regs for Buffalo Hunters.

Perish the thought!

That was really pretty much my point in posting that quote. We're not talking about military impressions where you can go by the regulations in effect at the time.
What I might take to camp in terms of light would be considerably different from what, say, my old father-in-law would have taken. I see quite well in the dark while he was practically blind if there was less than 3-100 watt bulbs burning in a room with one right over his shoulder!
When the hunter re-loaded (or if he did at all!) might vary from camp to camp as well. In Mayer's camp all he did was hunt. He didn't cook or skin so there was no reason for him not to reload whenever he felt like.

[Delmonico]

Do you 'spose that each camp and each individual hunter was different and unique in their own ways and did things as they thought best and they damned well pleased?  After all I haven't seen yet where anyone has came up with a Field Manual with the Rules and Regs for Buffalo Hunters.  

Perish the thought!

Your right pard, just another of my dumb ideas.

[Pitspitr]

You know? I got a bridge that's going to look like that with my 4-wheeler some day if I don't do something about it.

[Delmonico]

You know? I got a bridge that's going to look like that with my 4-wheeler some day if I don't do something about it.

Might be able to sell you a new bridge, wanna buy one?

[Will Ketchum]

Have thought a couple times that I need to get a fire extingusher and put it in my box of unmentionables.  Be my luck though if someone's tent caught on fire and I saved it theyed be POed at me a call me a Farbee.

After we had experienced a couple of lodge fires normally at least a couple of us had fire extinguishers in camp.  I picked up a couple of the old water/air type and kept them handy but hidden in our tipi.  I never was one to worry about PC when it came to safety

I remember when one lodge went up with a 2 year old sleeping in it.  His 14 year old step brother jumped in and tossed the baby out he then grabbed the full powder horns that were hanging on the lodge poles .  He did get singed as I recall but nobody was seriously hurt.  All that was left of the lodge was the charred poles.

My extinguisher wouldn't of helped since I was camped all the way on the other side and the tipi was gone in minutes if not seconds.

Will Ketchum

[Delmonico]

Me neither Will, but some I've met I am not sure about.   That for the most part is what the "Unmentionables" box is for, that and any modern camera gear we all seem to like.  My new pard Oscar has quite a bit of that and gets some awsome pictures.

Guess their is a little "Farbee" in most all of us.