Quote on SW clothing
Aug 26, 2010 13:37:24 GMT -7
Post by sean on Aug 26, 2010 13:37:24 GMT -7
This pertains indirectly to our discussion of Spanish trousers.
Garrard says on page 201:
Here's a guy who set up shop in NM as a distiller and evidently added some Mexican and Indian influence to his clothing, while retaining some of his American clothing in the mix.
You kind of wonder who Sadler was. The name doesn't seem to show up anywhere else. Could be that Garrard didn't want to air out the name of someone running a distillery that was sending illegal liquor over into American Indian country. I've always wondered if 'Sadler' was a former trade. But it wasn't Willie Workman as he had given up on the New Mexican liquor trade by 1841 and had gone to California with John Rowland and others.
Sean
Garrard says on page 201:
We saw, to our surprise, at the distillery near the nouth of the canyon, Sadler, an old aquaintance, with as big a heart as any man in the mountains, attired in a costume claiming originality with Indians, Mexicans, and himself!
Here's a guy who set up shop in NM as a distiller and evidently added some Mexican and Indian influence to his clothing, while retaining some of his American clothing in the mix.
You kind of wonder who Sadler was. The name doesn't seem to show up anywhere else. Could be that Garrard didn't want to air out the name of someone running a distillery that was sending illegal liquor over into American Indian country. I've always wondered if 'Sadler' was a former trade. But it wasn't Willie Workman as he had given up on the New Mexican liquor trade by 1841 and had gone to California with John Rowland and others.
Sean