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« Reply #45 on: August 20, 2008, 03:12:27 PM »
And I quote "Dontcha wanna have fun eennymore!"  Brian Keith, The Mountain Men .  Now lets hear an amen! :toast
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« Reply #46 on: August 21, 2008, 01:30:57 AM »
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Off the top of my head I can take a shot at it.

1. "Thunderbolt"
2. "Black"  Harris - can't remember the first name
3. "Old Pino"
4. "Cadet"
5. "Peg Leg"  Smith - can't remember the first name
6. "Big Chief"
7. "Tall Crane"
8. "Cut Nose"
9. "Cut Hand"
10. "Cut Face"
11. "Broken Hand"  Tom Fitzpatrick
12. "Bald Head"
13. "Medicene Calf"
14. "White Headed Eagle"
15. "Black Beard"  Joe Walker - maybe?
16. "Ol' Solitare  Bill Willeams - maybe?
17. "Ol' Gabe"  Jim Bridger
18. "Kit"   Christopher Carson

Mike, you did pretty well,....

"Black",.... was Moses Harris's nickname
"Peg Leg",.... was Thomas Smith
"Broken Hand",.... Thomas Fitzpatrick
"Black Beard",.... was the nickname given to Ceran St. Vrain
"Ol' Solitare",..... Bill Williams
"Ol' Gabe",.... Jim Bridger
"Kit",.... Christopher Carson

You were correct on 6 out of the 7 you attempted to identify. :clap

Anybody care to take'a stab at the other mountaineer's "nicknames"????
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Re: mm names
« Reply #47 on: August 21, 2008, 12:29:31 PM »
Quote from: "greyhunter"
And I quote "Dontcha wanna have fun eennymore!"  Brian Keith, The Mountain Men .  Now lets hear an amen! :toast



AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #48 on: August 21, 2008, 02:57:32 PM »
Quote from: "rollingb"

Anybody care to take'a stab at the other mountaineer's "nicknames"????

Well I tracked 'em all down . . . but got to say, I don't recognize a lot of the names.

(Not in order so someone else can keep chasin this tale . . .)

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Benjamin Bonneville
Bill Williams
Ceran St. Vrain
Christopher Carson
Dick Wooten
Edward Rose
Jacques Fournaise
Jefferson Blackwell
Jim Beckwourth
Jim Bridger
John McGloughlin
Milton Sublette
Moses Harris
Peter Sarpy
Pierre Chouteau, Jr
Thomas Smith
Tom Fitzpatrick
William Sublette
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« Reply #49 on: March 28, 2009, 08:58:45 AM »
When I go to rendevous or events I use the name "Dan'l" because a dear friend of mine and also Big Smoke's used to call me that when I was around - Jay De Frehn has since passed on but "Dan'l" has stuck.

I think mostly it was because when he knew me I was an ate up BP shooter and that is how our friendship developed.  Perhaps Big Smoke may enlighten you on Jay and why he called me "Dan'l"
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« Reply #50 on: March 30, 2009, 02:31:29 AM »
I've had a "mountain man" name for 20 years (Swapper) but I think I'd rather be called by my real name.   I've known a lot of folks over the years that go to rendezvous but I don't know their real names.  Now I can never find them.  This is only my opinion.  If a person wants to call me "Swapper" that's ok with me but my name is Wally Peters.  By the way, the reason that I was named "Swapper" is because I'm always trying to make a trade!
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« Reply #51 on: March 31, 2009, 03:12:02 AM »
I got lucky.  I wear a necklace made out of three little tomahawk heads and at one Rondy twenty some years ago a kid came into camp with a message for the geezer wearing three hawks.   One of my rendezvous buddy's name is "Buttercup," he sat in a patch of 'em and put a bright yellow stain on his nether end.

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« Reply #52 on: March 31, 2009, 12:23:26 PM »
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I got lucky.  I wear a necklace made out of three little tomahawk heads and at one Rondy twenty some years ago a kid came into camp with a message for the geezer wearing three hawks.   One of my rendezvous buddy's name is "Buttercup," he sat in a patch of 'em and put a bright yellow stain on his nether end.

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 His other name when he aint looking is Fossil!
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« Reply #53 on: June 19, 2009, 07:21:59 PM »
My mountain man name is "swapper" but maybe it ought to be "man who falls off the porch on his head."  (I fell backwards off the porch last week and was knocked out, had a concusion).  What funny about that is, I was a boxer in my youth.  I was never knocked out. If fact, I was never knocked down.  Now I know how it feels.  It's a very weird feeling.  I can hear it now: In this corner we have Wally, in the other corner we have the back porch!  Back porch won! KO in the first! :)
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« Reply #54 on: June 26, 2009, 11:21:39 PM »
In my experience, almost all modern Rondy names are given in affection, the name itself often a pun or parody of an experience at Rondy.

Yes, it can be and often is as hokey as a Cub Scout Campfire experience, but from some of the ear to ear grins on some of the Cubs and WEBELOS at their first campouts, I think that's more of a feature than a bug.

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