Post by jameshunt on Dec 2, 2010 23:27:06 GMT -5
The use of a dugout (a hole dug into the side of a hill) covered by green hides is well documented for both hunters in the Texas panhandle and for Montana. Below are some photos taken by a well known Montana photographer by the name of Huffman of buffalo hunting scenes around Miles City. Years were 80 - 82.
Note the scene below: green hides over the dugout, possibly a mother hubbard saddle on the far side, 25# powder can, and the horses in the distant, one may have a blanket on. Anybody want to be the first up to catch those horses tomorrow morning? It looks like one desolate place.
This may be the same dugout, hard to tell, but there are two hunters there. One just walking into the dugout. Note the hide coat, I don't think it is buffalo, maybe wolf or horse? The former would have been expensive the later common. I think there is a saddle up there. Note the head of a mountain sheep on top of the dugout, and what the heck is that little critter up there? Looks like a skinned frozen fox. Not the long handled ax, note the clothing and cap of the hunter in the foreground with the rifle.
Finally, from the same collection a scene of a hunter skinning a buff with others down around him. Note his cap. Man, that is some lonely country out there, not a good place to need EMS quickly.
Note the scene below: green hides over the dugout, possibly a mother hubbard saddle on the far side, 25# powder can, and the horses in the distant, one may have a blanket on. Anybody want to be the first up to catch those horses tomorrow morning? It looks like one desolate place.
This may be the same dugout, hard to tell, but there are two hunters there. One just walking into the dugout. Note the hide coat, I don't think it is buffalo, maybe wolf or horse? The former would have been expensive the later common. I think there is a saddle up there. Note the head of a mountain sheep on top of the dugout, and what the heck is that little critter up there? Looks like a skinned frozen fox. Not the long handled ax, note the clothing and cap of the hunter in the foreground with the rifle.
Finally, from the same collection a scene of a hunter skinning a buff with others down around him. Note his cap. Man, that is some lonely country out there, not a good place to need EMS quickly.