Trade Goods at The Montana 1830's Encampment

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A Rendezvous is like stepping into a time machine, not just to see Montana in 1840, but to go shopping!

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
For those wishing to join this event as a participant, if you haven't gotten your "outfit" together yet, everything you could possibly need will be for sale at the rendezvous. Likewise, if you've ever admired an old antique piece of the wild west, but knew that you could never afford such an item, then come and do the next-best thing: buy a reproduction. A piece made by today's skilled artisans can be so close to the real thing that it takes an expert to tell the difference. And the cost is only a fraction of what an original piece goes for these days.
 

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.

The artists who's work is displayed on this page:
Nancy Fonicello, quillworker
Jerry Fahrenthold, beadworker
Kate Williamson, dollmaker
Hamilton Dry Goods, purveyors of historical clothing and fabrics
Mike Mann, knifemaker

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