wild-nettle

Updated: June 9, 2025

There was not a tent in his army, and but very few blankets; the pack-horses earned the flour, while the beef was driven along on the hoof. Officers and men alike wore homespun hunting-shirts trimmed with colored cotton; the cloth was made from hemp, tow, and wild-nettle bark.

Theodore Roosevelt - The Winning of the West, Volume 1 : From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776