Please Note: There is an error on the cover of the May/June 2019 issue. The date on the front cover is incorrectly shown as March/April 2019. The spine and all of the inside pages of this issue show the correct May/June issue date. We apologize for our mistake and any confusion this might cause.
ON THE COVER: Honored Warrior by David Wright. The painting is based on a description by James Adair in 1775 of a Cherokee man wearing a horned head dress.
CONTENTS:
3 Letters from Our Readers
7 Prime Possibles
9 People to Watch —
Jason W. Gatliff
11 Doin’ It Yourself Making A Traditional German Style Hunting Pouch, Part II —
T. C. Albert
19 Shooting the Bull While On the Trail —
Mike Nesbitt
26 Cache of the Hollow Tree General Zachary Taylor Invades Texas, Part II —
Tony Hunter
37 Dispatches from New England New Hampshire Outpost, The Fort at Number 4, Part II —
Vincent C. Spiotti
45 18th Century Traveler To Equip a Soldier —
Matt Wulff
53 The Writings of a Mad Woman No Other Covering but the Heavens and Our Blankets —
Suzanne Thomson
62 On the Game Trail Flintlock Pig in Lead-Free California —
Peter Andresen
70 Function, Friendship, & the Fine Art of Bill Wright —
Joshua Shepherd
84 The Santa Fe Trail: Origins and Life along the Trail, 1821–1845 —
Michael Phillips
101 One Man’s Thoughts on Mass Produced Muzzleloaders —
Mike Lein
109 Classified Ads
111 Index of Display Advertisers
112 For the Bookshelf