From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   Todd wrote:   
      
   > Yes, there are lots of photos of old NWMP from the 1870s and 1880s where   
   they look like   
   > some museum piece with a full dress uniform that they NEVER wore from day to   
   day!   
   >   
   > So all the dumb bell artists paint them up with red coats and pill box hats   
   out patroling   
   > the prairies, good grief! Contemporary accounts describe them as actually   
   looking more   
   > like bushwhackers when out on patrol. Lots indeed did look like your average   
   character out   
   > of a duster, not some souvenir post card.   
      
   Someone, Teddy Blue, I think, wrote about one outfit where he found the   
   men wearing white shirts every day, on account of there being a rarely   
   encountered decent woman in residence.   
      
   He also observed, after things were well-settled, that he could pick out   
   the real old cowmen from the pretenders because the pretenders looked   
   like "cowboys."   
   --   
                          Gerald Clough   
       "Nothing has any value, unless you know you can give it up."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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