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One of my favorites is "Kelly's Heroes" if only because the tanks were not just Pershings or Pattons with German camo. "As for the worst, how about Battle of the Bulge and Passchendale" - Just the other morning I was channel surfing when I came to a commercial for a "male enhancement" pill...

Great! Really looking forward to it! (Theme to "Final Jeopardy" playing) Is it ready yet? <G> Wow! Even more stuff for me to spend money on! Yee Haw!

Oh, Gee! Something else to save my pennies for! Looks really good. You all are to be commended for your efforts there. My only "problem" <G> with the book is that there are no American FurTrade (ie. Mountain Men) figures. Perhaps in a later volume? (crossing fingers...toes..eyes) Keep up the...

I believe that practice was called claypipping, and was used by soldiers to keep their uniforms looking good. It was a lot of work and probably would not have been worth the time and effort for fur trappers in the field. All the contemporary accounts described the mountain men more as I've...

More Mountain Man info Fabulous sculpture, Sergey! It is going to be produced for sale, right? I hope so! One thing I've seldom if ever seen on depictions of mountain men is that they were DIRTY! Except when they were going to Rendezvous, trappers seldom took time to get really cleaned up...

You might try http://www.geocities.com/barrenriver1833 This is a site that was put up by a local historian/buckskinner. He has as few nice pics of clothing and gear used by the mountain men. He also sells a lithograph called "At the Beaver Pond" which shows a trapper in great detail. The site...

You might try "The 1837 Sketchbook of the Western Fur Trade" by Rex Allen Norman. It is only detail drawings taken from the works of Alfred Jacob Miller (the only artist to have actually been to a mountain man rendezvous) Obviously, any art books featuring reproductions of Miller's work are also...

Font links Here's a page with tons of links to free font sites. Haven't done more than scratch the surface (So many fonts, so little time!) Knock yerself out!

Great job there! Has me watchin' my topknot! I definitely would like to see more of your work. Thanks for sharing.