Hello the camp!
New event details have been added for Fall and Winter 2025, and I for one am ready to get out of this heat and out to Rendezvous!
Some of the group fliers are still coming together, but dates are posted for many events.
See you around a campfire soon!
I recently had the good fortune to listen to another excellent podcast from I Love Muzzleloading on The Shirttail Mess and an immersive event they hosted in back in May called , “Dark and Bloody Ground.”
Jake Book hosted the event on family land and had a good showing of like-minded individuals who portrayed a hunting party and natives clashing with each other on the late-1700s frontier.
The group requires a pretty high level of authenticity, as you can see on their recommended gear list, as posted for a future event. Some would push back on such requirements, but a clear understanding and agreement to the parameters and requirements of an event is essential for a high-quality immersive event. Immersive meaning that all participants are acting as if they are in that particular moment in time, with no allowances for non-period equipment or the like, as well as agreeing to what exactly they will be doing at the event – patrols and skirmishing, a mapping expedition, hunting or trapping party, etc.
For example, since the participants of this event would be engaging in simulated frontier combat, there has to be specific agreed-to rules for how conduct this safely and within the limitations of this time in history.
One of the many things I really liked about the event is how they structured the activities with folks arriving on Thursday for a group camp near the site of the event, with the actual event running Friday to Saturday, overnight on Saturday, and then closing the event Sunday with a group meal before the departure and return to “real life.”
Jake also mentioned his dad came out to the event for a bit, which I thought was really neat considering my dad also got me into muzzleloading, back in the day, and like Jake’s father isn’t attending events like he did in his younger years.
Here is a link to the details on the event hosted at The Shirttail Mess,
Dark and Bloody Ground : Immersion Recap
Here is the podcast, Trekking in Cresswell’s footsteps | Jake Book:
See you on down the trail!
Recently The Flintlock Operator visited the Texas Association of Buckskinners Deep Winter Rendezvous near Goldthwaite, TX.
Here is the video he made from the event:
Shinin’ times were had for sure! Waugh!
The fliers have been updated for Texas Association of Buckskinners Deep Winter Rendezvous (Jan 24-26, 2025) and the Texas Free Trappers 37th Rendezvous (Feb 6-9, 2025).
All these details are on the events page!
The Booshway for Texas Free Trappers has requested that you RSVP either Rusty or Jack to let them know you’re coming out. Also plan on having a fire bucket on hand and a brazier or fire ring just in case a burn ban is in effect.
Fliers are up for Texas Association of Buckskinners Fall Rendezvous in Normangee and Texas Free Trappers in Shiner.
Check out the details, and come on our to rendezvous!
Waugh!
Buckskinning groups are starting to announce their events for Fall and Winter 2024.
Keep an eye out for some updates to the website coming soon.
Rendezvous – Fall 2024
Waugh! See you on down the trail!
Hello the camp!
We have details on some great events and camps coming up in Fall of 2023.
Details are posted for the Plum Creek Brigade, Texas Associaton of Buckskinners, Texas Free Trappers, and the Ranger Springs Skinners.
Event details are here. Hope to see you at Rendezvous!
Update on the Plum Creek Rendezvous:
The Plum Creek Rendezvous will be Sept 29,30 Oct 1,2023. We will be on the Trew Ranch that is 66 miles east of Amarillo and 5 miles west of Alanreed Texas highway on I-40 in the Texas Panhandle.
As pulled from Facebook.
A flier and map is available on the Events page.
Schreiner University is hosting a great event this year for us history enthusiasts. Their Texas Heritage Days event looks to be a good one for sure.
Here is a list of some of the groups in attendance and what they’ll be demonstrating and discussing:
1. AT&T, The Texas Center, E Pluribus Texas
2. Texas Commission on the Arts, Vickie Hayes, Collaborative Art
3. Riverside Nature Center, Fossils
4. Daughters of the Republic of Texas, History Camp Activities
5. Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, Texas Ranger Badges an Selfie Station
6. Aurora and Mariza Betancourt, The Original Way of Making Corn Tortillas
7. Clifton Fifer, Stories and Songs
8. Lenny and Dana Medina, Indian Dancer
9. Company A 9th US Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, Buffalo Soldiers Life on the Frontier
10. Rio San Gabriel Party of the American Mountain Men, Fur Trade in Texas/Plains Indian Sign Language
11. Hill Country Archeological Association, The Archeology of the Prehistoric Texas Hill Country
12. Sons of the American Revolution – Firing demonstrations at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
13. The Alamo, Cannon and Musket – Firing demonstrations at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
14. Frontier History Company, Texas Ranger Camps – Firing demonstrations at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
15. Roy Neal, Moses the Mountain Man
16. Doug Baum, Texas Camel Corps
17. Scott S. Kelly, Chuckwagon Display
18. Russell Tiner, Longhorn Living History
19. Kevin Fitzpatrick, Trick Roper
20. Fort McKavett State Historic Site, The Frontier Army in the Antebellum Era
21. Fort Concho National Historic Landmark, Frontier Army Life at Fort Concho
22. Creative Moondance Treasures, Inc., Harmonica lessons with free harmonicas
I’ll be there with some of my AMM brothers discussing period weapons, and we’ll be doing some plains Indian sign language, displaying period gear, and more.
More details are available on their website – https://schreiner.edu/the-texas-center/texas-heritage-days/
Hope to see you there!
From Jack “Straight Arrow” Simons:
Several people have already reached out about the Texas Free Trapper fall rendezvous. We are planning it – November 9-12 at our usual site in Shiner, Texas. As we get closer, we’ll send out a flyer.