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January/February 2012

3 Letters from Our Readers

7 Prime Possibles
11 Shooting the Bull A Lancaster Trade Rifle — Mike Nesbitt
17 Cache of the Hollow Tree Gold, Silver, Fish, Fur, and the Developing Wealth of the New World —Tony Hunter
27 Doin’ It Yourself War Club Perspectives — T. C. Albert

34 Portals in Time  The Crucible of Pain — Mark Sage

45 On the Game Trail Flintlock Caribou — Art Dannenberg

49 The Far West Picturing the First Mountain Man — Rex Allen Norman

55 In Search of an Old Trail — Kai Moessle

61 Keep Your Cool without Offending the Neighbors —Barry Maxfield

66 Small Game Challenges in the Ocooch Mountains — John W. Hayes

70 Save Illinois History — Eric Van Alstine

73 Hunting Report from Minnesota — Frank Tousley

77 Classified Ads

79 Index of Display Advertisers

80 For the Bookshelf —Wild Life in the Far West, Great Knife Makers for the Early West