A new bag and horn strap

For the past few years, I have not had a shoulder bag for my shooting supplies but rather have used a slit pouch. This has worked well, but I really miss having a shoulder strapped pouch. For the past year and a half I have been weighing my options, thinking, and thinking some more on my shooting pouch and powder horn combination and what I actually wanted. For my pouch, I wanted something historically correct for an...

Daring to be plain

Wool leggings are often mentioned in colors of red and blue in the fur trade. These were worn by natives and canadiens as well as by soldiers. Red and blue are by far the most common colors mentioned in trade lists and in descriptions of natives. Occasionally other colors are also mentioned. This considered, it was with great surprise that I learned that white was most common in inventories and estate records in Quebec. In a...