MVC-504F Welcome to Old Cowtown	MVC-483F Main Street Shops
MVC-474F Main Street Shops	MVC-484F MAin Street Shops
MVC-489F Main Street Shops	MVC-457F Main Street Shops
MVC-458F Train Station	MVC-459F Grain Elevator and Weight Scale Office
MVC-460F Grain Elevator	MVC-461F Livery Stable
MVC-462F	MVC-463F Prarie Schooner
MVC-464F Chuck Wagon	MVC-466F Local Home
MVC-467F Local Home	MVC-468F Now that's a bicycle
MVC-470F Local Home	MVC-469F School House
MVC-471F Inside the one room school house	MVC-472F Inside the one room school house
MVC-473F Buffalo Hunter's Camp	MVC-475F Carpenter's Shop
MVC-476F Modern version of the table saw.	MVC-477F Hand powered table saw
MVC-480F It's not as easy as it looks	MVC-481F Huff and Puff a little harder only 600 more board feet to go.
MVC-482F Granny & Judy enjoing a Sasbarilla (local brew)	MVC-488F The local bank
MVC-486F Early withdrawal	MVC-487F How about a little more?
MVC-490F The Old Apothecary	MVC-491F The Old Apothecary
MVC-492F The weight scaled in the Old Apothecary	MVC-493F The Saloon
MVC-495F The old homestead farm	MVC-497F The boardwalk
MVC-498F Resting at The Land Office	MVC-499F The Smithy. Just like Papa Barta's blacksmith shop in Oak Forest
MVC-500F Making wheel rims at the smithy	MVC-503F Flora inside the General Store

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Living History Museums

• America's Outdoor History Museum
• Association for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums
• Living History Farms
• Mystic Seaport Museum
• National Trust For Historic Preservation

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Period Clothing Sources

• Border States Leather-Supplier of saddles and horse equipment to reenactors.
• C & D Jarnigan - Major supplier of ready-to-wear for living history, esp. Civil War
• Clearwater Hats - Very good quality hats for a wide variety of eras.
• Cows - Classic Old West Styles -
• Dirty Billy's Hats - Another great hatter.  Emphasis is on Civil War and late nineteenth century.
• Drover's Mercantile - Kansas (Ellsworth) supplier of western garb & accessories.
• Fall Creek Sutler - Civil War Sutler who also stocks an assortment of civilian items right for the 1870s
• Fugawee - Good men's and women's shoes and pewter buttons.
• Galla Rock Mercantile - Men's ready-to wear, accessories, patterns, fabrics, and copperware.
• Grand Illusions Clothing Co. - Mens clothing and accessories
• Hamilton Dry Goods  -  A wide variety of clothing and fabrics for the nineteeth century.  Check out thier reproductions of 1873 Levi's!
• James Country Mercantile - Clothing accessories, and patterns; nice folks who have been out to Frontier Days
• Mercury Supply Company Sutler - Mostly Civil War stock, but good for accessories, shirts, & shoes
• Nick Sekela- Historic Clothiers  - VERY accurate clothing to order, great reputation among the hardcore
• Okietex - Discount men's clothing including vests, shirts, pants, coats, and rainwear. See especially their "Vintage" line. While limited in styles & colors, their size range is impressive (S-5X)
• Reenactment Eyewear - Don Griffin is a PA optician and reenactor who can supply competitively priced prescription glasses for periods from the 1500s to the 1920s.
• River Junction Mercantile - Clothing, accessories, leathergoods and patterns; occasional visitors to Cowtown
• T.P. & H. Trading  Custom hand-made hats by Tim Bender.  A modest variety of listed online, but can custom make hat blocks to ANY period shape/style.
• Thomas Lincoln Boots & Brogans - Correct 19th century men's shoes and boots which are very reasonably priced!   The choice of a number of museum staff and volunteers.
• Trans-Mississippi Depot - Very accurate leather goods and tailoring; mostly Civil War but will do 1870s
• Upper Mississippi Valley Sutler - Mostly Civil War stock, but good for accessories, shirts, & shoes
• Wild West Mercantile - Western clothing for the shooting crowd, some is period correct, check their "Bargian Corral"
• Alter Years - This site carries products from many other clothing and pattern companies
• Axfords - English corsetmakers since 1880,  many traditional styles and materials
• Elizabeth Stewart Clark & Co - Children's clothing & patterns, plus an assortment of historic fabrics
• Family Herloom Weavers - VERY correct custom-woven fabrics for the period
• Farthingales - One-stop Canadian supplier for cosets, supplies, and underpinnings
• Fugawee - Good men's and women's shoes and pewter buttons.
• Hedge Hog Handworks - Fabric, sewing and needlework supplies and accessories
• Home-Sew - Catalog of trims and acessories including fringe, lace, and mother-of- pearl buttons
• The Kirk Collection - Collection of Civil War and 1870s fabrics
• Lacis - Wonderful selection of sewing and needlework supplies. Pattern selections include Folkware line
• Laughing Moon - Assortment of so-so period & "period-inspired" patterns
• Mileux - The Costume Source - Links to a wide variety of costume websites and resources
• Patchworks - Good source for period appropriate fabrics, although a little pricy
• River Junction Mercantile - Clothing, accessories,shoes and patterns; occasional visitors to Cowtown
• Shooting Star Enterprises - Women's clothing to order (Abilene, KS)
• Thai Silks - Good source for silk!
• Truely Victorian - Assorted women's costume patterns
• Victorian Cottage Treasures - Wide selection of sewing and needlework supplies, plus lace.
• Wisconsin Patterns of History - Historically authentic patterns with very challenging directions

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