paraflesh

Updated: July 24, 2026

A paraflesh is made of rawhide expressly to carry water in, and are frequently used to peddle milk by the Mexicans. The second day from Beaver creek we reached a little stream near the Goshoot village, this being the place where Uncle Kit finished buying furs to load his pack-train in 1848. The next morning we reached the village. I had not seen any of these Indians for five years.

William F. Drannan - Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains : An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West