
You can buy many items at the "Montana 1830's" Howell's Encampment. The "Traders" strive to bring you the best of the mid- 19th century, including historically authentic camp and trade goods, food, clothing, arms and accouterments of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade era.
Getting outfitted
Items
typically available at the Montana
1830's Encampment can include Santa
Fe saddles and vaquero horse gear;
hand-forged candle holders and
firesets; pewter plates, mugs, and jewelry; glass trade beads new and
antique from all over the world; trade guns, flintlock rifles and
pistols, muskets and Hawkens; knives, dirks, sabers, swords and
cutlasses; beadwork and porcupine quillwork; silver and nickel silver
jewelry and buttons;
cedar pack-baskets, blankets and capotes; butter
churns and wooden buckets; yard-goods and finished coats, shirts,
trousers, breeches, vests, kilts, dresses and costumes of buckskin,
wool, silk, linen and cotton; pottery; hand-made moccasins, cavalry
boots and colonial shoes Native American flutes and drums; furs and
buffalo robes; leather saddle bags and shoulder bags, belts and
hand-forged buckles; and books, original art and limited edition prints
concerning the historical fur trade era. It will be a virtual
cornucopia
of 19th-century goods produced all over the world, originals and
reproductions, and carried here by many means in order to trade and
sell
to the public.