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daily nebraskan
friday, September 29, 1978
Rustic days of Davy Crockett relived by gun club
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Photo by Bob Pearson
The fur trade era of the early 1800s is captured by
this modern day mountain man adorned with a
skunkskin hat and muzzle loading gun.
By Sue Brown
Imagine camping in the winter wilderness, clothed in
the tanned hides and furs of a trapper and armed with a
muzzle loading gun.
The re-creation of the Rocky Mountain fur trade era
of the 1820s, 30s, and 40s is state archivist Jim Potter's
hobby.
Potter, an archivist at the Nebraska State Historical
Society, is a member of a club whose primary interest
is perpetuating the history of the fur trade era. This is
accomplished through camping trips, complete with primi
tive housing, fur trapper costuming, and muzzle loading
guns.
Many of the members, including Potter, have sewn
their own costumes; some even going as far as to tan the
animal hides used in making them.
Days of Davy Crockett
According to Potter, the guns are comparable to those
used in the days of Davy Crockett and are loaded from
the front with black gun powder for ammunition and a
projectile to pack it in. The black powder is used for
safety reasons because it is a low power propellent. In
its 10 to 15 years, the club has reported no injuries.
Although the guns may be used for hunting purposes,
summer shooting matches are popular among club mem
bers. Matches stationed throughout Nebraska provide
shooting practice and competition by using paper tar
gets, blue rocks or metal gongs.
According to Potter, the summer matches provide an
opportunity to bring the whole family along on a vaca
tion. The winter trips to various state parks, such as the
Fort Atkinson State Park, stress the primitive aspect of
the era.
Regional group
Although there are similar clubs throughout the state,
Potter said his 35-member club is a regional group, draw
ing from the Lincoln, Omaha and Fremont areas. Its
trips are open to spectators as well as anyone interested
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in participating. Potter said the club encourages new
shooters.
He said he has found his hobby particularly satisfying
in that it is one he can "enjoy all year round" through
camping or reading material about the era.
After majoring in history at UNL, Potter said he hoped
he could get involved in some area of government service.
He applied f the Nebraska Historical Society in 1967 and
worked fo three years as an assistant archivist.
"An archivist gets a lot of on-the-job training," Potter
said. Now, as the state archivist for the society, he has
three assistants who aid in the preservation of historical
records.
Potter said he feels that people may be lured by the
romance and history of a particular era, but would prob
ably not want to recreate the hardships of that era.
Police at UNL ask for
prompter theft reports
A University Police official says he would like persons
reporting crimes to be more prompt in doing so.
Sgt. Joe Wehner, said University police received 16
reports of thefts this month in which the 'crime actually
took place at least three days earlier, and in some cases,
several months earlier.
A burglary of photo equipment with a value of $1,816
from the Former Law Building was reported almost a
month after it happened, he said. The theft of a university-owned
projector that took place in April was not
reported until Sept. 19. Wehner also said the theft of
three pieces of photo equipment which took place last
December was reported last week.
Eight of the 16 reported thefts involved university
owned property, and with one exception, employees
waited at least a month to report them.
"We want them to report the crime the minute they
know it happened," Wehner said.
He also said that the most common reason not to
report a theft is because the person who reports the theft
thought another member of the department may have
borrowed it. But Wehner says report the theft anyway.
"We don't mind. It doesn't "upset us," he said.
Wehner urged persons to report thefts, regardless of
how long they have known about it. Even if the property
is not recovered, "we need to know the crime patterns on
campus," he said.
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