If historical research teaches you anything, it teaches you that you can not
depend on any one historical record, due to its limited scope, to provide an
accurate representation of the availability or presence of any particular item
in a historical context. It may have been that rare, but it could have been
common enough in some regions to not even merit a mention in the records or
documents of that time. There is also the problem that the farther you go
back, the fewer intact documents remain forming an incomplete picture of that
time, if based only on existent records.
-William
Greg Lindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 08:04:27AM +1000, Marsbar wrote:
> There is no historical reason why there could not have been a
> hurdy gurdy or two in America in the time of the French and Indian wars.
Some re-enactors prefer to re-enact the common, not the rare. It's
all up to personal (or unit) preference.
-- greg
