January/February 2015

ON THE COVER: Red Jacket - Oil on wood board by Pamela Patrick White. For more information please visit [www.whitehistoricart.com].

Contents
3 Letters from Our Readers
7 Prime Possibles
11 Treasures from the Past - James Blake
13 Doin' It Yourself Lessons Learned the Hard Way - Why Every Longknife Needs a Sheath - T. C. Albert
20 From a Bar of Iron and Stock from the Tree... Masterpiece Rifles of the Cumberland - Mel Stewart Hankla
35 Cache of the Hollow Tree Henry Knox, The Man Who Delivered the Heavy Guns: Part IV - Tony Hunter
45 Shooting the Bull Introducing "So Tacky" - Mike Nesbitt
53 Portals in Time One Man, Two Worlds, and an Undeserved Reputation: The Life and Times of Simon Girty: Part V - Mark Sage
61 Dispatches from New England Burning a Few Towns, The Finals Months of Major John Pitcairn: Part II — The March to Lexington - Vincent C. Spiotti
71 Rockhouses and Rhododendron Rockcastle Recollections: Part II - John Curry
78 Jesse Brennan - Dr. Peter Marshall
89 On the Game Trail Back in Time — Forty Years and Beyond - Lowell Haarer
95 The Yellow Stone — Fur Trade Innovation and Texas Hero - Ken Krueger
101 For the Bookshelf
105 Classified Ads
108 Index of Display Advertisers