Re: MtMan-List: Packs

[amm944 <amm944@prodigy.net>]

Casapy123@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Another refernce to packs is made by James O. Pattie.  On Dec. 12, 1824,
> while on the Gila River, Pattie says: "The next morning, accompanied by
> another man, I began to ascend the band of the stream to explore, and
> ascertain if beaver were to be found still higher, leaving the remainder of
> the party to trap slowly up, until they should meet us on our return.  We
> threw a pack over our shoulders, containing a part of the beavers we had
> killed, as we made our way on foot."  . . . "We made but little advance this
> day, as bluffs came in so close to the river, as to compell us to cross it 36
> times.  We were obliged to scramble along under the cliffs, sometimes upon
> our hands and knees through a thick tangle of grape-vines and underbrush."
> 
> This entry indicates a pack that was held snuggly enough to the body to allow
> hands-free scrambling.
> 
> Jim Hardee
> AMM #1676
Jim I think that your.  Hoping for the words to pop out and say pack
baskets.  I don't think that they met pack baskets they could have
folded up a pieces of leather or canvas then tied the pack on to
themselfs.  The chances of anyone in the party knowing how to make a
basket  could find a tree that would work would be better odds then
winning the loto.  But I would be a fool to say that it would be
impossible.  It could happen it would be slim they had baskets.later Jon
towns