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January 7, 1868
Gold Hill Daily News
Gold Hill, Storey County, Nevada
What is this article about?
Practical advice from Washoe teamsters for travelers in deep snow: wrap boots and lower pants with old sacks or blankets, secured with strings, to keep feet warm, dry, and prevent slipping.
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How to Keep Your Feet Warm.—For persons traveling in the snow, especially where it is knee deep, more or less, a very good and cheap arrangement for keeping the feet warm and dry is that adopted by our Washoe teamsters, as well as many others who are posted. It consists in merely wrapping the boots and lower part of the pants with old sacks, pieces of blanket, or something of the sort, with strings wound around to bind them. Half of a barley sack will do very well for each boot. A person thus provided is not so liable to slip, and is pretty sure of warm feet and clean, dry boots, besides which, the snow cannot shove the pants up and get in over the tops of the boots. "The rig is not particularly handsome, but 'tis comfortable."
What sub-type of article is it?
Winter Travel Advice
What keywords are associated?
Snow Travel
Feet Warm
Washoe Teamsters
Boot Wrapping
Where did it happen?
Washoe
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Washoe
Event Details
Wrapping boots and lower pants with old sacks, pieces of blanket, or similar material, bound with strings, to keep feet warm and dry in knee-deep snow, as adopted by Washoe teamsters.