Oregon Trail Tobacco

[Rockyrepose]

I went for an outing yesterday and sat on a hill in the high plains enjoying a smoke after a well deserved lunch convinced I was miles from another soul. What tobacco species did American west settlers likely smoke? I had a bowl of Burley Morning Pipe thinking those big balled travelers could have never imagined someone riding a bike out here for entertainment. 37 miles round trip nothing but me and the cows excluding one guy out scouting for game.

I know they used tobacco products as barter and in some cases saving the hair on their heads. What was commercialy available in the early 1800's?

 

[Country Bladesmith]

I don’t know. I always died of dysentery before I got that far out.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I don’t know. I always died of dysentery before I got that far out.

I came across a tombstone in high-school that read, "Here lies LL Cool J. Mama knocked him out."

 

[GCW]

History of commercial tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Rockyrepose]

History of commercial tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Smoking | Discovering Lewis & Clark ®

www.lewis-clark.org

Native Tobacco - Discover Lewis & Clark

Lewis mentioned two species of tobacco, possibly Nicotiana quadrivalvis and N. rustica that the Arikara cultivated.

www.lewis-clark.org

I was thinking along the lines of Sir Walter Raleigh but I don't think that's accurate.

 

[kcghost]

They were smoking something or else that was one long trip.

 

[Jaylotw]

Ropes and plugs, probably strong and nasty, too. There weren’t really any “brands” or blends as far as I know, just local farmers curing it, some local mill or small factory buying it and twisting it up, then selling it to the local store who sold it off to whoever bought it. Quality probably wasn’t much of a concern.

 

[BROBS]

Shave off a few shavings of something like days o’ work. ?

 

[BROBS]

Also, anybody else ever just spend all their money on ammo and lay waste to the hunting screen?

 

[brian64]

Ropes and plugs, probably strong and nasty, too. There weren’t really any “brands” or blends as far as I know, just local farmers curing it, some local mill or small factory buying it and twisting it up, then selling it to the local store who sold it off to whoever bought it. Quality probably wasn’t much of a concern.

I have no idea what the quality of the tobacco they were using was like, and you may be right that it wasn't very good. But I would think that those who were producing it were also using it themselves, so at least some of it may have been better than you think.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Also, anybody else ever just spend all their money on ammo and lay waste to the hunting screen?

Every time ?

 

[BarrelProof]

Also, anybody else ever just spend all their money on ammo and lay waste to the hunting screen?

Every. Single. Time.

But now I use it to teach ethics to my kids. You can only carry 100 pounds of meat back to the wagon, so we stop when we think we’re close to 100 pounds and let bison walk since that era was hell on them and every one we shoot in the game results in 347.6 pounds of wasted meat with a standard deviation of 5.7.

 

[BarrelProof]

I went for an outing yesterday and sat on a hill in the high plains enjoying a smoke after a well deserved lunch convinced I was miles from another soul. What tobacco species did American west settlers likely smoke? I had a bowl of Burley Morning Pipe thinking those big balled travelers could have never imagined someone riding a bike out here for entertainment. 37 miles round trip nothing but me and the cows excluding one guy out scouting for game.

I know they used tobacco products as barter and in some cases saving the hair on their heads. What was commercialy available in the early 1800's?

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No clue, but that Specialized needs WAY more bikepacking gear on it!

 

[anotherbob]

Also, anybody else ever just spend all their money on ammo and lay waste to the hunting screen?

everyone it was the only sort of fun part of it.

 

[anotherbob]

Probably ranged pretty wildly as far as quality went. For example I've heard whiskey had such wildly variable quality that people where happy to get the government involved in regulating the stuff. That's probably an over simplification.

 

[BROBS]

Every time ?

Easy way to turn a school game into a first person shooter ?

 

[BROBS]

Probably ranged pretty wildly as far as quality went. For example I've heard whiskey had such wildly variable quality that people where happy to get the government involved in regulating the stuff. That's probably an over simplification.

Well yeah people would mix all sorts of shit and call it “whiskey “ ?

 

[anotherbob]

Well yeah people would mix all sorts of shit and call it “whiskey “ ?

some of the shite people added to snuff at that time was pretty insane.

 

[Jaylotw]

Also, anybody else ever just spend all their money on ammo and lay waste to the hunting screen?

The one real lesson we all learned is:

Always lead a moving target.

 

[SoddenJack]

Also, anybody else ever just spend all their money on ammo and lay waste to the hunting screen?

Shoot 5 buffalo, can only take 100lbs of meat back