May/June 2018

ON THE COVER: Detail from Through the Snow-Capped Frontier, by Joe Velázquez.

CONTENTS:
3 Letters from Our Readers
7 Prime Possibles
13 Doin’ It Yourself When East Met West, The Missouri War Ax — T. C. Albert
21 Shooting the Bull My Jacob Kunz Style Rifle – Mike Nesbitt
27 Cache of the Hollow Tree The Looting of the Spanish Main, Part III — Tony Hunter
37 Dispatches from New England Six Terrible Days, The Northeast Coastal Campaign of 1703, Part II — Vincent C. Spiotti
45 Portals in Time In and Out of Time, Part I: Some Thoughts About Living History — Mark Sage
53 The Domestic Arts Rescuing Old Pewter, via Electrolysis & Other Adventures — Eleanor Labine
61 On the Game Trail The Diamond Yard Boar and the Crazy Creek Bull — Ben Kleinig
72 Joe Seabolt, Artistry Forged in Tradition — Ian Pratt
87 Primitive Fire Starting Methods, Part I: Flint and Steel — Paul T. Berry (“Tanglefoot”)
94 Undaunted Treason, The Rise & Fall of General James Wilkinson, Part II — Gary L. Foreman
105 Classified Ads
111 Index of Display Advertisers
112 For the Bookshelf