"Living History" with Some of the Many Characters of the California Gold Rush Days
I attended this annual event in Poway, Ca today that was one of the most fun and educational events I can recall in San Diego.
Old Poway Park was the setting for an authentic reproduction of the ways of the old west back in the time of 1820's through 1890's.
The living history groups of the Shadow Regulators , Cimmaron Ridge Old West Productions and the Apache Canyon Gang provided a journey back in time to the early American times of the Old West even prior to the development of the communities that would one day become the major cities of the southwest and western states.
I was taken with the degree of effort made to create as authentic as possible the camps and the way people dressed and lived in those times.
Every detail that I could see was meticulous from the tents and sleeping quarters to the cooking and the ways that people socialized then. One Mountain man was making one of my favorite meals and the smell was divine.
This Mountain Man aside from some serious cooking talents had some great digs that he shared. The coonskin cap, a winter coat made entirely of blankets and the deer skin chaps. It was fortuitous that the Pot Roast drew me in. As we chatted, he has some valuable view property that he wants to sell.
While women were scarce as the west was being settled, this women was intent on showing her crocheting skills. But I have an idea that she could handle a rifle as well.
The ways of life were beautifully translated through the re-enactments.
Mountain men knew how to take care of them selves in the wild untamed land.
Typical Camp Set-Up
The Cowboys back in the day dressed very differently
Some of the Possesions of the Era.
Every territory needed a Sherriff and this affable fellow with no gun probably wouldn't have lasted too long unarmed.
This was such a fun event and something that Poway and it's entire community should be very proud of. I don't believe Hollywood could have created a better location that would lend itself to this sort of re-enactment than Old Poway Park.
May the Spirit Of These Wonderful Old Cowboys Of The Wild West Never Die !
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