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Offline wwpete52

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« on: December 07, 2008, 06:13:02 PM »
Do any of you fellers ever wear a wool ponch at rendezvous?
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Offline david32cal

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« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2008, 07:13:24 PM »
i'm glad you brought this up pete, i been thinkin' of makin' one from a small wool blanket i have. was wondering if they would have been something worn by the mountainmen.
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« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2008, 08:38:07 PM »
Well down in the RoT (Republic of Texas) and territories west we call 'em serapes...   :rt th

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« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2008, 09:30:53 PM »
Quote from: "david32cal"
... was wondering if they would have been something worn by the mountainmen.

They can be documented for the mountain men who worked out of the Southwest after 1821-22 and many of them (Kit Carson for one) went north to Rendezvous Country at times.
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