January/February 2017

ON THE COVER: Detail from The Broken Snowshow, 30" x 36", oil on linen by Nicholas Coleman.

CONTENTS:
3 Letters from Our Readers
7 Prime Possibles
13 Doin' It Yourself Making a Pipe-Axe - T. C. Albert
21 Treasures from the Past - James Blake
23 Cache of the Hollow Tree The Origins of the Western Fur Trade, Part III - Tony Hunter
32 Portals in Time Traveling a Corridor of History, America's Frontier History Expedition, Part III- The Cumberland Gap - Mark Sage
47 Shooting the Bull More Shootin' – Mike Nesbitt
55 Dispatches from New England The Great Incendiary, New England & The Wabanaki Confederacy Wars from 1722-1725, Part I - Vincent C. Spiotti
63 The Domestic Arts We Live at this Fort Well, Revisiting the 1748 dinner of a future Revolutionary War General - Eleanor Labine
71 On The Game Trail A Day Made for Ducks - Daniel Suchocki
76 Lally House, Traditional Frontier Artist - Mel Stewart Hankla
91 A Different Kind of Stump, The Lead Recovery Box - John W. Hayes
97 Rick Nash & His Big Canoe Project - Michael Buss
109 Classified Ads
111 Index of Display Advertisers
112 For the Bookshelf