September/October 2026

ON THE COVER:
Detail from Redhawk, an original oil painting by Emma Zacherl.

CONTENTS:
3 Letters from Our Readers
5 Prime Possibles
9 People to Watch Ted & Rachelle Quednau — Andrew Scott Wills
11 Doin’ It Yourself So, It’s Not What I Thought After All — T.C. Albert
19 Shooting the Bull Paul Bunyan Plainsmen’s 51st Rendezvous — Mike Nesbitt
27 Dispatches from New England Maligned and Misunderstood, The Saga of Colonel Timothy Bedel and the Battle of the Cedars, Part I — Vincent C. Spiotti
37 18th Century Traveler US Model 1842 Musket, Buck and Ball — Matt Wulff
47 Buffalo Trace 1765 “Most Tiresome Sight I Ever Beheld” French Hunters Clothing — Nathan Kobuck
59 On the Game Trail Fitting In — Dwight Yoder
68 Bronze Artist, Wayne E. Hyde — Brenda E. Chabot
81 Dining in the Past, Part II — Jerry Grandle
87 How the Watch was Worn in the Eighteenth Century — Kimberly K. Walters
95 Classified Ads
96 Index of Display Advertisers