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NOTICE
OF NAME CHANGES
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the original copyrighted business "Buckhorn
Rendezvous" (material & art
work rights retained) was the start of "Clark
& Sons Mercantile" opened
1995 until its sale in 2000.
"Clark
& Sons Mercantile" closed
in 2003
by new owner do to health issues. This was
a wonderful period correct business that
has left a void in the search for correct
edibles.
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A
new source site "Clark
& Sons Emporium" will be just a source for your edible
research, of
what has been found in libraries, Internet
and at different museums across this land.
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Phila.
~ St. Louis ~ Trade West
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PERIOD
EDIBLES, CULTIVATED & FORGED.
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CATALOGUE #4*
(Year
1986 catalog shown)
For
sale, period edibles, herbs, & field crops cultivated
& foraged, camp goods,
personal items, guns, & much more. Over 100 documented items pertaining to edibles
& camp life found in the
settlements & on the frontier.
$
3.00 postage
included.
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Soon
to be announced 2006 several more firms will have
period correct edibles
available on the Internet as well as the various
events around the country for your convenience.
When
these additional firms are supplied they will be listed for
your viewing reference.
Now
handling edibles:
Longhunter
Leather Company
Blue
Heron Mercantile
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GENERAL
WASHINGTON'S MILITARY KITCHEN
Shown
below is information on a military "mess
kit" once owned and used by General George
Washington. A set-up like this was not
uncommon to European Officers, but unusual to the
American Forces. A small 44 page booklet titled
"General Washington's Military
Equipment" [Mount Vernon, 1963], p.20 says:
"His [GW's] military equipage grew gradually
as the war dragged on. In April 1776 Benjamin
Harbeson of Philadelphia provided a "mess
kit" consisting of the following:
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Nest of Camp Kettles
3 large Tin Canisters
1 doz. Oval tin dishes
2 doz. & 9 Tin plates
He
[GW] added more plates and canisters the following
month. Perhaps part of this order is in the chest
of camp utensils preserved at the Smithsonian
Institution (Fig.11)"
Fig.11 - Mess kit. Chest of wood covered with
leather, lined with green wool. Interior divided
into fourteen compartments and containing a tray
with nine compartments. Equipped with the
following:
4 tin pots with detachable wooden handles
6 tin plates, 3 tin platters
2 knives and 4 forks with black handles
1 gridiron with collapsible legs
2 tinder boxes
8 glass bottles with cork stoppers
2 glass bottles for pepper
2 salt with pewter tops
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On page 104 of the coffee table book "The
National Museum of American History, A Smithsonian
Museum" there is a photograph of a field mess
chest attributed to George Washington, possibly
the same kitchen mess referred to. It contains tin
plates, platters, utensils, and a tankard. There
is a similar "mess kit" at the Valley
Forge Historical Society at the National Park in
Pennsylvania, planned for display in early 2000.
The "mess kit" in question is tin of a
high quality that has turned dark with age, not
pewtered [tin-lead alloy] as has been suggested by
others.
Smithsonian
Museum Information.
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INFORMATION
OF INTEREST
The
few items described below is to give you a small
taste of what was being sent from the East to the
new frontier, by our citizens and citizens from
other lands. Edibles were big business as
were all the other needed supplies.
This
information is from many issues of the Museum of
the Fur Trade micro-film at St. Louis museums and
several other Fur Trade sources, and are found
many references from 1803, 1822, 1825,1826, 1832,
1834, 1835, 1837 and 1839 as to a number of the
items available.
The
first listings are just a small sampling of
"Supply Invoices" from 1822, 1825, 1835.
The
second items you will find are a sampling of
remarks of from few historic persons of that era,
and their thoughts about some edibles.
The
third is a sampling of some information on field
seeds, vegetables, herbs and apples, together with
a little history on the more popular ones.
Looking
over this information, and considering the amount
of trade that was going on out of St.Louis, it is
a pretty slim inventory for a variety of edibles
when you consider what was actually available
during those years.
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1835
Invoice
of merchandise shipped on the Steam Boat Diana,
C.A. Halstead Master, bound for the Upper Missouri
River and Consigned to Messr Laidlaw and Lamont
for the account and risk of the Upper Missouri
Outfit, 1835.
U.M.O.
Pierre
4 boxes Y.H. tea 5 loaves ( ? ) sugar
2 boxes shaving soap 4 boxes com soap
1 barrel rice 4 bales oakum
2 barrels water crackers 2 barrels each navy pilot
bread
1/2 barrels molasses Keg 50 15 gls 1 hlf barrel
mackreal
? bottle pepper sauce 2 boxes raisins
2 boxes cod fish 1 Lexington mustard
2 lb refined borax 1/2 dz. lime juice
2 oz nut megs 2 oz cloves
1/2 dz. ground ginger 1 gal blue grass seed (for a
Factor)
7 kegs 6 twist to pound tobacco
2 kegs 2 twist to pound tobacco
1 keg 1 twist to pound tobacco 5 kegs 8 twist to
pound tobacco
7 boxes brown Havana sugar 5 sacks Grod Al Salt 1
box cavandish tobacco 10 barrel pork
6 bags coffee 1 barrel bacon hams
40 barrels flour
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1825
Inventory
of Goods available at the 1825 Rendezvous on
Henry's Fork of the Green River, from Wm. Ashley's
diary:
2 bags coffee 1 hams goods
2 Tobacco 2 packs sugar
2.5 kegs tea
Tobacco 150lbs.
3 Bags coffee 200 lbs.
130 lbs Bale & Bag Sugar
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1825
Inventory
of Goods available at the 1825 Rendezvous on
Henry's Fork of the Green River, from Wm. Ashley's
diary:
2 bags coffee 1 hams goods
2 Tobacco 2 packs sugar
2.5 kegs tea
Tobacco 150lbs.
3 Bags coffee 200 lbs.
130 lbs Bale & Bag Sugar
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As
additional research or information sources
become available we keep you informed.
Thank
you for stopping we hope to see you again.
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