ON THE COVER:
Detail from
Snake River Culture, an original oil painting by Martin Grelle.
CONTENTS:
3 Letters from Our Readers
7 Prime Possibles
11 Doin' It Yourself A Traditionally Carved Northwest Coast Gun, Part II -
T. C. Albert
19 Treasures from the Past - H. David Wright
21 Cache of the Hollow Tree The Pirate, Francis Drake, Claims California for England, Part II -
Tony Hunter
29 Shooting the Bull Selecting, Installing, and Maintaining Flints –
Mike Nesbitt
37 Dispatches from New England A Most Unhappy Affair, The Portsmouth Powder Alarm of 1774, Part II -
Vincent C. Spiotti
45 The Writings of a Mad Woman Colonial Fair at Bledsoe's Fort -
Suzanne Thomson
53 Rockhouses and Rhododendron A Cumberland Kind of Consciousness, Part II -
John Curry
61 The Gunsmith of Grenville County Designing the Butt Stock -
Peter A. Alexander
71 Portals in Time A Fowler at Mount Vernon -
Mark Sage
80 The Arikara Campaign of 1823 -
James A. Crutchfield
88 ...Past & Progression... the Longrifle Artistry of Ian Pratt -
Guy Montfort
101 On The Game Trail Turkey Hunting Memories -
Patrick Cameron
107 Classified Ads
111 Index of Display Advertisers
112 For the Bookshelf
5, 44 Voices from the West -
James A. Crutchfield
9 Voices from the East -
Paul Clements
