Originally Posted by
kyratshooter
At most of the events I deal with you would be turned around at the gate if you are a "walk in" and your gear is not right. Generally someone, either a Dog Soldier at rondys, or the "button police" at historic sites, will come around and check you and your gear out as soon as you are set up. You may not realize it but they are there. If everything is right they just hang around for a few minutes and talk without ever telling you who they are. Most just think they are the welcome committee. If you are wrong and will not correct the issue you are asked to leave.
The people that attend these events are there to duplicate a lifestyle and it turns their stomach when someone is presenting a contradiction to the truth of their era.
One event I go to there was a gate crasher that every year attempted to enter our 1780 frontier era event while wearing a full blown "Hollywood Cowboy" outfit complete with six shooters and Winchester rifle. He even tried to sue us for discrimination in a public place and finally quit bugging us when he lost the suit.
Texas Rising has been a fun series. They have presented people that no one knew existed unless they were a Texas History student and I enjoy that. Everyone knows about Crockett, Bowie, Travis and Houston but few knew about the "Yellow Rose" legend, or Big Foot Wallace, John Coffee Hayes and some of the others or the origin of the Texas Rangers as a force that already existed before Texas independence.
And while their costuming seems excellent, their historical facts are a bit sketchy.
But it's a movie, so take it as such and enjoy. Just don't quote any of what you see as the "history of Texas".