Shoshone at Murthly Castle
Three Worlds Meet. A tipi of the Shoshone Indians sits on the Murthly castle grounds as part of the Museum of the Mountain Man's rendezvous in Scotland. The descendents of William Drummond Stewart own and operate the family's castle and estate. Photo courtesy Murthly & Strathbraan Estates.
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On Murthly castle steps
Alan McFarland (Ireland), Mike and Cindy Powell, Nick Bath, Sonny and Connie LeClair, Mrs.(?) and Jerry Enzler ( talking to each other), Judy LeClair, Jim Auld, Thomas S., Kate (hidden) and James Fothringham, Doyle Reid, Susie and Doc Olsen, Jim Hardee, Sandy Fothringham, Willie LeClair, Mary Auld, Laurie Hartwig, Debbie Reid and Scott Walker.
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Museum of the Mountain Man goes to Scotland
by Pinedale Online!
September 16, 2014
Representatives of the Museum of the Mountain Man, the American Mountain Men, and Three Worlds Meet cast went to Murthly Castle in Scotland in early September for a "rendezvous" with the Scottish descendents of explorer and adventurer William Drummond Stewart.
The trip and multi-day programs were intended to acquaint the Scottish descendents with their connection to the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade era in the United States in the early 1800s, which centered in the Upper Green River Valley of present-day Wyoming. The programs included demonstrations by the American Mountain Men showing time-period correct clothing and accoutrements, presentations on the history and how their people and country connected to the fur trade in the American West, and a chance to meet Shoshone Indians and see the theatrical production of Three Worlds Meet, which debuted in Pinedale in 2013.
William Drummond Stewart was a Scottish nobleman who made several trips to America in the early 1800s during the height of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade. Stewart met and traveled with William Sublette, Jim Bridger, Thomas Fitzpatrick, and other now-famous fur trappers and traders. In 1837, Stewart came back to the west and brought artist Alfred Jacob Miller with him, who produced hundreds of sketches, watercolors and paintings of the adventures of the trip. Many of those paintings were completed later when Stewart brought Miller back to Scotland with him to paint while staying at Murthly Castle near Perth and the River Tay.
During the 2014 Green River Rendezvous in July, the Museum of the Mountain Man brought Thomas Steuart Fothringham, current Laird of Murthly Castle and descendent of William Drummond Stewart, to Pinedale to see our Green River Rendezvous and connect with his roots here. The September rendezvous in Scotland at Murthly Castle brought the Mountain Men, five Shoshone Indians from the Wind River Reservation to Highland Perthshire, Scotland and was an opportunity for the Scottish people learn more about how their roots and heritage connect to the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade history in America and for the Americans to learn about what happened to Stewart family descendents and the many things Stewart brought back with him from America to Scotland as remembrances of his adventures out in the American West. The Three Worlds Meet stage production was modified and enhanced to be an exchange of history, theatre, art and culture.
Museum of the Mountain Man Director, Laurie Hartwig said, "250 - 300 people attended the castle tours, historical lectures and AMM demos in William D. Stewart's grove of trees. It was a GREAT success!!"
Bridging oceans and time, the cultures and worlds meet again in friendship and camaraderie as history repeats and brings the descendents together once again to rendezvous and embrace their common past.
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