November/December 2022

There was a delay at our printers with this issue, it was scheduled to be mailed out on 10/14 but was actually mailed on 10/21/22.

ON THE COVER: Detail from On the Trail to Trade, an original oil painting by Robert Griffing.

CONTENTS:
3 Letters from Our Readers
7 Prime Possibles
11 Doin’ It Yourself There’s More to it than Just Hanging out a Shingle — T. C. Albert
21 Shooting the Bull Paper Cartridges — Mike Nesbitt
29 Cache of the Hollow Tree The Scottish Highland Regiments Come to America — Tony Hunter
37 Dispatches from New England The Cat Came Back — Vincent C. Spiotti
45 18th Century Traveler The Bucket List, Part II — Matt Wulff
55 On the Game Trail New Mexico Mountain Lion With a Southern Mountain Rifle — Mike Yancey
60 Steve Auvenshine—Intersection of Arts, Media, and Communication — Eric Ewing
73 Making Percussion Caps — Dave Morelli
82 Fishing on the Early Frontier, Part I — Joshua Shepherd
93 “Is Not This the Red River?”—Zebulon Pike, James Wilkinson, and the Search for the Far Southwest — James A. Crutchfield
109 Classified Ads
111 Index of Display Advertisers
112 From the Bookshelf