July/August 2022

There was a delay at our printers with this issue, it was scheduled to be mailed out on 6/15 but was actually mailed on 6/24/22.

ON THE COVER:
Detail from In The Land of the Ute, an original oil painting by Martin Grelle.

CONTENTS:
3 Letters from Our Readers
5 Doin’ It Yourself Caring For Your Treasures by the Book — T. C. Albert
13 Shooting the Bull And So It Goes — Mike Nesbitt
21 Cache of the Hollow Tree William Pitt—The Englishman Who Captured an Empire, Part I — Tony Hunter
29 Dispatches from New England Taking My Time to Find My Way Home, Part I — Vincent C. Spiotti
37 18th Century Traveler If I Cannot Be Daniel Boone, I Guess I Will Be Simon Kenton Instead, Part V — Matt Wulff
47 On the Game Trail Whitetail with an Isaac Haines Rifle — Ken Drenon
52 Living with a Quillworker — Lon Brauer
65 Mystery on the Plains: Geologic Curiosity, Mistaken Identity, and a Courageous Desire for Freedom, Part II — Doyle Reid
75 The 2022 Contemporary Longrifle Foundation Fundraising Auction — Joshua Shepherd
91 The Last of the Mohicans—Part I, From James Fenimore Cooper to Michael Mann — Ted Franklin Belue
109 Classified Ads
111 Index of Display Advertisers
112 For the Bookshelf