Lets do some looking at outfits

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

We make the request through our tribal council.....

Bill

[Wireman]

We make the request through our tribal council.....

Bill

Cool....

Round here ya'd git in big trouble for even having one.... even if you picked it up from the ground.

[Dr. Bob]

Wireman,

Bill is an INDIAN and therefore can possess feathers from raptors.  The rest of us get a "Go to jail" card if we have one.

[Trinity]

That's why mine is a painted turkey feather.  Don' wanna push the little luck I do have.

Looks good, OCB.  Love that rifle!

(Congrats on the weight loss.  I for one know that it isn't as easy to remove as it is to add.  Oh, and the chin strap is quite visible.)

[Texas Lawdog]

Congrats to OCB on his weight loss. I hope to see him while he's down here in the metroplex.

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

Congrats to OCB on his weight loss. I hope to see him while he's down here in the metroplex.

TL....Dave and I hope to leave on Sunday morning the 12th. We start filming on the 16th so that will give us a couple days to get acclimated to the weather and meet some of you folks down there. I don't know if I mentioned it or not, but Dave is a Indianapolis Police officer and has been growing a period correct mustache and chin whiskers for this film and boy has he been getting an eye from the folks at work! Dave is near retirement and pretty much has told them to shove it! He is really excited about being in this film.

Hey, I've got Tascosa Joe's phone number but I don't have your contact information. If you want you can email it to me.

bill@surf-ici.com
Bill

[buckskin billy]

been on this site for about a month now and just ran across this thread. looks like it kind of died out a little so maybe i can spark it back up a little. here are some pics of me and a few of my pards at  living history events

making boodan



cooking breakfast in the trapping camp(i appologize for the back ground)



me and my pard cody on a buggy ride



my tintype



beaver trapping



from left to right: cody, his boy zack(notice his blunder bus) allen and me. we are the limp bull fur company

[GunClick Rick]

I need me one of them fox tails Where bouts you all at?

[Delmonico]

Buckskin, nice pictures, I've got some more I need to get up of me and friends.  Need time when I'm home because my work computor don't have a program to do B&W or sepia and I like to look at them in all. 

[Wild Billy Potts]

Buckskin, I like that tintype. You look like a Missourah bushwacker.

I wish I had the tintype of my GGGrandfather (the real Wild Billy Potts) in Texas in the 1870s. Y'all would get a big kick outta it.

[Doc Cuervo]

Del.......I think Custers baldness was accelerated quite a bit at Little Big Horn

Bill

The savages did not scalp nor partake in their standard practice of mutilation of Custer. Some say it was because he had a relationship with an indian woman and was considered a relative by many of them. The only mutilation was, his eardrums were pearced, supposedly so he could hear better in the afterlife.

[Doc Cuervo]

[quote
Finally, Sgt. E-5 Bill Proctor, Vietnam 1966. I thought I'd throw this one in for fun. This was taken seven months before I got wounded


[/quote]
Glad you made it back . 66 the year I enlisted.

[Doc Cuervo]

Glad you like it, bit I have to admit that I have fudged the jacket I am wearing. It is a custom made copy of the Charlie Prince jacket from the latest 3.10 to Yuma. It is leather and is a great jacket but not exactly authentic. 

I do have a nice wool Frock Coat that I wear as well.

Where did you get that great lookin hat?

[GopherG]

Here is a link to a great place to find alot of information on fabrics, pattern and sewing. Mostly for the Civil War period but still usefull. http://thesewingacademy.org   Happy sewing

[James Hunt]

A little bit B-cowboy:


Definitely B-cowboy, look at that stampede string!!!


The real deal:

[Kent Shootwell]

The wife and I plus some friends at events.
The first is her new outfit she made and I with the vest she made, the hat is from a shop in Livingston Montana steamed and reshaped. The next is us with them folks from New Zealand that we fitted up as best we could. The wife in more of her duds she mostly makes and I have a new set of trousers by Wah. Last is  my gang in Medicene Bow ready to shoot up the town, gall-darn wild womenfolks!

[Deadeye Dick]

JH,
I notice the B-cowboy horse has a tie down. They are used a lot now days, esp. in action type riding.  Did the cowboys use tie downs in the late 1800's? Never paid much attention to it before. Just wondering.
Deadeye Dick

[James Hunt]

Deadeye: I suspect no self respecting cowboy ever used a tie-down. Despite riding a slick mother hubbard saddle these guy's could probably stick to anything a horse could bring their way. A horse who was throwing its head about to a cowboys annoyance most likely got the stiff end of the quirt or a coil of rope slapped across its head. Horses were not back yard pets to them, they were a working tool, and they had string to work with.

While a tie down works well in an arena, in rough country a horse needs its head to balance with - not to mention catching the tie down in brush or whatever. Quick turns and turn around while roping in open country do not bode well for a tie down. After several seasons of using a tie down in mounted shooting, I ceased. It certainly didn't improve my scores.

[Drayton Calhoun]

The first photo I'm wearing a pair of riding trousers I made from a pattern, the shirt I got from Gander Mountain about 25 years ago, the belt and holster are my 'working rig' that I wear when I'm out working on the property, the boots, well, not p.c. Mastersons, the hat I made from an old Tandy pattern.the pistol is a 61 navy with simulated ivory grips and Marlin Cowboy Special Limited Edition in .45

Second photo the shirt I made from a Buckaroo Bobbins pattern, the same hat, gunbelt and holster I made from a modified buscadero pattern,Navy Arms Bisley  , 94 Winchester Trapper in .357, the mocs I made from a pattern for 'plains style high-tops', the trousers are elk. Shirt, trousers and mocs are all left-overs from my buckskinning days.

[Colt Fanning]

RCJ,

What is the black luggage you are carrying opposite the carpet bag in the 1873 jail picture.  What was it used for
and what is it made of.

Regards
Colt

[1961MJS]

Hi

I currently live in Oklahoma where it's NICE and warm, it's September 26th and it was 95 Degrees F yesterday.  I'm looking at getting stuff together for CAS.  Is the Frontier Classics canvas vest and pants going to last a while?  I had seen a picture of a pair from one of their rivals and you could see through the fabric.  If I turn out to REALLY like CAS, I'll probably go to Wool next year.

I found what I'm after on Tonto Rim's site.

Thanks

Mike
Norman OK

[Delmonico]

I get a couple years out of the pants before I patch them and keep wearing them where I don't have to look as good.  That is wearing them all the time, I put more wear on a pair in a month than most will in a year, think Carhartt and how well they wear.  Their lighter ones I get a little over a year, those are the striped ones.  To be honest with you either will last longer than these modern, half worn out pre-washed jeans that everyone thinks they need.

[1961MJS]

Thanks Del

I'll order soon.

Mike
Norman OK

[Skeeter Lewis]

These are 19th century pants from the pattern by Laughing Moon. They have cross pockets, button fly, welt pockets at the rear and a back-strap.

[WaddWatsonEllis]

Hi,

This was taken on Easter Saturday of 2012 for our Old Sacramento Living History Easter Bonnet Promenade ... I am play an 1851 (or later)  townie decked out in all his finest .... with the hope of escorting 'Lady'. I have other pics where I am escorting, but do not wish to put the women on our page ...