Hola David, I don't think I answered you on this one. Sorry for the delay. We have some pictures of cueras on this website in the Files section, under Arms and...
Hola Everyone!!! I would like to know more about the soldado websites listed on the front page of the yahoogroups soldados. I noticed that San Diego, Santa...
(Article in Spanish re: June 2006 rteenactement in San Juan, PR) Grupo busca aficionados a la historia http://www.endi.com/ Domingo, 5 de junio de 2005 Por...
The idea of cueras being quilted certainly does not originate with Woodward nor is the idea necessarily drawn from the Aztecs. Nor is there a clear connection...
Hola Amigos! Read through this exchange and the first letter triggered a memory of some Native research I had done, I though you fellows would find this...
Hola! Carlos is quite right. Arthur Woodward had an illustration on the cover of his 1948 pamphlet on soldados de cuera of the Portola Expedition which clearly...
Hola todos, From the many books and accounts,I have read of Aztec and la conquista,histories/accounts.I recall that the Aztec/Mexica cotton armour was of...
Profesor - Por favor, tell us what three examples you're referring to? Muchas gracias. Carlos Lopez <clopez2066@...> wrote: Very good, but there is no...
... From the DeSoto 2004 yahoo list, I'd been trying for some time to find the primary source on the brinesoaking (it's mentioned in Prescott's History without...
The word to describe a quilted material in Spanish in "acolchonado" from the word "colchón". If you need a noun for it, it would be "acolchonamiento". A...
But the Madrid cuera, (which you've seen, Profe, right), only has provenance back to Cuba. We assume that it came from the Southwest, but we don't know it...
Hello people! This is one of the coolest events I've seen coming up in a long time, and the web site is also really something! The URL that I got to work is:...
Hola, Some of my amigos who recreate the Scottish Jacobite period (1745) are wondering if there is anyone reproducing the M1722 Spanish musket? Seems there was...
Does anyone know if there are any English language books on Spanish Card Games? If not, is there any interest in one? I am thinking of translating (getting...
... Hola Quatro! Are there indeed? That is exciting news. Please share - which casta paintings are these that show cueras and how can I get a copy? Best...
I really like card games. I found some rules to card games such as Hombre and Monte in "A history of Card Games" by Davis Partlett, Oxford University Press. .....
Hola! Thank you Carlos. This certainly helps. Now what I'd like to know is what Spanish word or words the actual original documents used when describing these...
... Brigade. ... a ... of ... any ... a ... stuff ... I am extrememly sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Too many things going on for me. I'm trying...
... Hola! I was browsing through the last message and kind of got lost aboutmwho was speaking, but I believe it was xuarez3 who wrote that he was looking for...
Hola, I was hoping someone could give me a line on those talented individuals out there who can recreate Spanish style firearms? Anyone? Gracias, Soldado Tito ...
Given the turnover rate, unless you want to chance it and maybe wait for years to get the musket, I wouldn't go w/ Rifle Shoppe. From my experience, for every...
There are a couple of "plains muskets" in the Albuquerque Museum, dated in the 1850s and 60s. As I recall they are both smoothbore and rather short, but were...
... Gracias.... do you know if there is the same problem if one were to order parts from them? I can't understand why no one has turned them into the Better...
Last time I checked at Loyalist Arms they weren't taking any new orders for custom muskets, and they were back logged until 2009. Perhaps they have gotten...
Like I mentioned, its a mixed bag. The guy before you might've gotten his stuff right away or within what seems a "reasonable" turnaround time, but the 2 guys...
I've done buisness with TRS. I got 95% of the gun parts I ordered in about 3 weeks. The rest came about 3 years later! But I did get them. I think TRS is...
Looks like everybody got the word & decided to patronize a) the only joint that turns out product when they say they will, & b) actually DO customer service...
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