March/April 2024

This issue was mailed out on 4/18/24.

ON THE COVER: Detail from The Crossing, an original oil painting by David Wright.

CONTENTS:
3 Letters from Our Readers
7 Prime Possibles
9 Shooting the Bull Watching a Walker — Mike Nesbitt
17 Dispatches from New England Back on the Trail Again, Part I — Returning to the 18th Century — Vincent C. Spiotti
25 18th Century Traveler A Percussion Gun, Part III — Matt Wulff
35 Buffalo Trace 1765 Blanket Coats, Greatcoats, & Capotes — Nathan Kobuck
45 The Builder’s Bench Recreating the Henry Albright 1790 Daisy Head Patchbox, Part II — Jim Parker
53 Forgotten Trails Mayhem on the Kentucky Frontier — James A. Crutchfield 57 On the Game Trail White Smoke, Black Stags — David Ciekot
64 Earl Lanning, Pioneer of the Longrifle Culture — Mel Hankla
81 A Perilous Winter Journey; a Contract, a Deadline and “The Death of a Dog” — Part III — Gary J. Peterson
93 Classified Ads
95 Index of Display Advertisers
96 For the Bookshelf