On September 9th and 10th we visited Camp Sankanac
for Living History Days with Harold Dellinger.

One the first day, Mr. Dellinger dressed in costume, representing men from Colonial American History 1750-1890
Nicole and Mr. Dellinger
Entertaining with a song  All rifles were kept covered. This 
prevented men from suffering burns when 
touching sun-heated steel on their rifles and 
pistols. This is a common misconception 
because of TV movies.		 Commonly known as the Confederate 
flag, this was actually the Battle Flag. 
The true Confederate flag was the
"Stars and Bars" seen in the photo to 
the left.
The uniforms of that time period were 
made with sharp edged buttons on the
sleeves to discourage soldiers from wiping 
thier noses on their sleeve. There was no 
facilities availble to wash the uniforms and 
they needed to stay as clean as possible.		 "Kentucky Rifle" - actually built in Pa.
Mr. Dellinger taught gun safely and 
shared his experience with an "unloaded" 
gun that cost him his right eye.		 Cowboys of the early west were mostly
Mexican and trained ex-US soldiers how
to be cowboys
The "true" Danial Boone cap was not
round with a little tail as seen in movies.
The front feet were attached to the 
jawbone and the rest of the hide laid 
down your back to protect you from the
rain or snow.		 All rifles have a ring that attached to the 
hook on this shoulder strap. The rifle was 
then tucked into a holster on the saddle. 
When dismounting, you could keep the rifle
attached, or unclip it and leave it in the 
saddle.		 The heavy buckskin chaps the cowboys
wore to protect thier legs from briars are
really pronounced "schaps".