Rendezvous: Taking a trip back to the 19th century
Ryan Murray | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 13 years, 4 months AGO
<p>Rick Carter plays his homemade mandolin at the Two Rivers Rendezvous. The neck was made from an old gun-stock.</p>
<p>“L-Rod” and “Gray Wolf” stand for a photo at the Two Rivers Rendezvous, wearing clothing similar to trappers pre-1840.</p>
<p>A shot of the Rendezvous camground</p>
<p>Dean Thompson fires a pistol at targets downrange.</p>
<p>“Two-Knives” throws a tomahawk and knives at logs set up near the Rendezvous campground. Dean Thompson waits for his turn, fresh off shooting his flintlock pistol.</p>
Every year, scores of folks step into a time machine at the Fawn Creek Campground along the Fisher River, heading back to a period between 1820 and 1840.
It was then that the mountain man reigned supreme in the American Wilderness, and the Two Rivers Rendezvous seeks to celebrate and explore this time of independence and reliance on survival skills to get by.
Blackpowder shooting, archery, tomahawk- and knife-throwing were all events to keep guests in the thick of things.
Charlotte Morain, secretary-treasurer of the Kootenai Muzzleloaders, the event’s sponsor, said there were 65 contestants.
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