Image caught by a camera apparatus!

[Mick Archer]

  Howdy Pards!

  It does not happen too often, but I had my image captured by one of those new fangled camera-apparatus things:

 

Howdy Pards!

  Thank ye.  And yes I am hoping more pards will share some pictures...

  This is one of my "bufflao hunter" impressions circa 1871.   

  Let's see...

  The Spencer is a Larry Romano rifle in .56-50
  The revolver is a Colt M1860 Army in a "Slim Hoslter" with caps carried in a cap box, and cartridges for the Spencer and Colt carried in a cartridge box behind my back.  The belt is the Civil War era "NCO" waistbelt with the eagle sword belt plate often seen in pictures  (Frank James turned in one when he surrendered after Jesse was killed.)
   On the left, and not too visible is a large skinning type knife in a Plains Indian tacked sheath.

   The "mule ear" boots were popular because the large tops made it easier and more comfortable to cram one trousers into them.  And one did not not need two people to get them off.  ;-)  :-)
 
   By the mid and later 1870's the "outfit' would evovle.  The Spencer was often replaced by the M1874 Sharps Sporting rifles and later Business rifles.  And the C & B Colt Army replaced by the Richards-Mason conversion of the same. 
   For that, I drop the cap and cartridge box, and shift to a Mexican loop holster and add metallic cartridge loops- which then moves on to regular cartridge belts with a separate web belt for the Sharps .45-90 rounds.

    Mick Archer



 

[Two Flints]

Mick,

Great photo!  Hope other SSS members will do the same.  Thanks for posting your photo and description! 

Two Flints

[Fox Creek Kid]

VERY authentic looking!! 

[Mick Archer]

  Howdy Pards! 

Here I am with Kansas Budd Wilson in 1878.  I'll  leave the color on... this time.


  I am rusty, but I think Budd got that shirt from the Civil War maker C.J. Daley.

  At any rate.. it is a repro of the Civil War and Post CW era "Contract Variation" Army issue shirt of canton flannel.

  While the standard Army shirt came in off-white, and had a slit front and no pocket, contractors made an "improvement" in the form of a placketed front and added one or even two breast pockets and made them in off-white. gray, dark blue, tan, and even red.  I wear a dark blue and a tan one every once in a while.

   They appear in photographs as the design was copied by the civilian market, plus the Government sold off "surplus" from time to time.  (Not to mention deserters, veterans, and current-duty soldiers selling thier clothes for booze or gambling money in town.

    As I have been "doing this" for years, I kinda/sorta have a feel (no pun) intended for differences between we Moderns and folks in the Past... but I am always "impressed" wearing flannel long underwear tops and bottoms under wool flannel or cotton flannel layered outer garments in the 100 plus degree sun.

  Regards,

  Mick Archer