HEMP HISTORY ROOM
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HEMP IN THE OLD WEST.
| "The Conestoga wagons and prairie schooners of pioneer days were covered with hemp canvas. Indeed the very word canvas comes from the Arabic word for hemp." (from U.S.D.A. Film Hemp for Victory). True canvas is hemp canvas, and in the old West of the United States, tents, wagon covers, ropes, packs, sacks, and some clothes were of hemp cloth and canvas. |
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Tents and covered wagons of canvas (Cannabis) provided shelter in the old West and around the world.
Hemp Museum bookend.
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The original Hemp Museum model of a hemp- covered wagon, seen here with hemp stalks wrapped with hemp rope from Denmark. |
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Circle of wagons ready to take off
from St. Louis, Missouri for the trek west. The hemp
canvas was bleached white in the sun.
Hemp Museum postcard. |
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Kansas History: Westward
travelers across the Kansas prairies during the 1800's carried
everything with them much the same as we do in our modern
recreational vehicles!
Hemp Museum postcard. |
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Covered wagons crossing the Rocky
Mountains.
From the Hemp Museum book CURRIER & IVES. |
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Nevada State Museum Popular Series
No. 10: TO CLOTHE NEVADA WOMEN, 1860 - 1920.
1990. This 48 page book shows wagon covers, tents, ropes,
and the story of J. W. Davis, who invented riveted pants and
patented them with Levi Strauss in 1872. Davis moved to
San Francisco from Reno and supervised the manufacturing of
Levis.
Hemp Museum book from a visit to the Nevada State Museum. |
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