March/April 2020

ON THE COVER:
Detail from a photograph of Historic Martin’s Station at sunrise taken by Harold Jerrell. Photo courtesy of Wilderness Road State Park.

CONTENTS:
3 Letters from Our Readers
7 Prime Possibles
11 Doin’ It Yourself Making Yourself a Percussion-Era Pouch — T. C. Albert
21 Shooting the Bull Flintlock Or Percussion? — Mike Nesbitt
27 Cache of the Hollow Tree Robert E. Lee—Before The Civil War, Part IV — Tony Hunter
35 Dispatches from New England Weekend Indoors in New England—The New England Colonial Trade and Craft Fair — Vincent C. Spiotti
43 18th Century Traveler Feeling French — Matt Wulff
55 The Writings of a Mad Woman Spirit and Fortitude — Suzanne Thomson
67 On the Game Trail Hunting Son of Big Hoof — Derrek Hryhorchuk
74 Brad Emig — Master of 18th Century Technology — Mike Beliveau
88 Martin’s Station — Twenty Years of Memories — William F. Brown, III
100 Daniel Boone’s Life in the Far West: An Inquiry into His Alleged Yellowstone Hunt, Part II: Daniel Boone’s Original Spanish Land Grant & Life at La Charette — Ted Franklin Belue
109 Classified Ads
111 Index of Display Advertisers
112 For the Bookshelf