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by Michael L. Pitzer. Softbound, 172 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". How to portray an Eastern woodland warrior, a valuable resource with tips you won't find elsewhere. The guidance provided in this book will save you time, money and emberrassment by showing you how to do it right the first time. Includes such topics as: creating your persona, making clothing and gear, paint & scalplocks and much, much more. If you are considering becoming a living history interpreter of the Eastern Woodlands warrior, this is the book for you.

by David R. Montgomery. Softbound, 256 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". A full color handbook of projects anyone can do and skills anyone can learn. Tanning leather, carving canoes, beading jewelry, and weaving head-dresses. Also includes fish trapping, identifying animal tracks, making tipis, gourd rattles and ornamental breastplates. A clear, step-by-step resource for creating practical and artistic Native American wares. This book will entertain, fascinate and educate.

by Ernest Thompson Seton, a founding father of the Boy Scouts of America. Softcover, 590 pages, 5-1/4" x 7-3/4". Based on Native American wisdom and practices, this book is esential for Boy Scouts, their leaders, and any guides leading outdoor adventures. Also great fun for anyone desiring a fuller experience from nature. Build a campfire, or birch bark basket; recognize animal tracks or constellations; make delicious biscuits on the trail and spot edible mushrooms; remedy everything from sun stroke, snake bites to internal bleeding; and much more..

by Philip Walker. Softbound, 32 pages, 6" x 8-1/4". The story of the tools and techniques with which man has learned to manipulate wood. This book gives an idea of what the basic woodworking tools were like in the main historical periods and shows an astonishing variety of forms that these basic tools have assumed at different times and in different places. Heavilly illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings.

by Anthony L. Tafel. Softbound, 112 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". Over 280 crisp color photographs revela artifacts of early American everyday life that were useful for surveying land, building log homes, farming the land, traveling, blacksmithing and cabinetmaking. From light paper ephemera such as land surveys and playing cards to heavy garden sones and conestoga wagon components, they are pictured and explained.

by Thomas L. Elliott. Softbound, 288 pages, 4" x 11". A terrific reference book initially published in 1983, includes over 5000 imprints, over 4000 biographical entries and almost 3000 individual ratings for judging relative scarcity and vale. A must for collectors.

by Greta Arwidsson & Gosta Berg. Softbound, 90 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". The chest was originally fond in Mastrmyr on the island of Gotland, Sweden in 1936 the chest held more than 200 objects that were found in and around it. Most are tools that were used by blacksmiths and carpenters, many of them amazingly modern in appearance. Contains 32 pages of black and white photos and drawings.

by Denis Diderot. Softbound, 9" x 12", 239 pages. A superb replication of copperplates engraved to illustrate Diderot's great 18th century Encyclopedie. The plates offer a unique and invaluable record of manufacturing and the trades just prior to the Industrial Revolution. Each of the major trades is illustrated in sequence detailing machinery and processes from raw material to finished product. Extensive, detailed notes clearly identify and explain objects, procedures and techniques of each industry. Artists, illustrators, collectors, historians of industry, art and invention will welcome this superb reproduction. This volume features Agriculture & Rural Arts, Art of War, Iron Foundry & Forge, Extractive Industries, and Metal Working.  

by Denis Diderot. Softbound, 9' x 12". Plates 209-485. This volume covers Glass, Masonry & Carpentry, Textiles, Paper & Printing, Leather, Gold, Silver and Jewelry, Fashion, Miscellaneous Trades. Also features an index of "Subjects Illustrated In Plates" for both volumes. 

by Mark R. Tully. Softcover, 46 pages, 8-1/2" x 11". The latest in the series, this book covers such topics as life expectancy and duration of life, the Royal Arms, a canoe paddle, the kitchen garden, buttons, fire starting and lanterns, indentured servants and more. An informative and entertaining look at life during the American Revolution.

by Isabella L. Bird. Softcover, 256 pages, 5-3/8" x 8-1/2". The author remains a woman before her time and one of the most adventerous travel writers of the 19th century. She recounts her journeys through Canada and pre-Civil War United States in this travelouge. Drawing from letters to her sister back home in England, Bird passionately details such sights as wigwams on Prince Edward Island and the romantic falls of Lorette in Quebec, plus dark encounters with cholera, slavery, and harrowing storms at sea. A reprint of the 1856 The English Woman In America.

by James B. Miller. Softbound, 369 pages, 6" x 9". The story of early settlers driven from their homes at the hands of the Six Nations and their Tory allies. Trecking sixty miles through untamed wilderness to safety with only the clothes on their backs. After regrouping the settlers returned to take back their homes and livelyhoods. The author beautifuly recreates this harrowing feat using original documents and letters.

by Davy Crockett. Softbound, 122 pages, 5-3/8" x 8-1/2". Filled with both adventure and hardship, this easy-reading autobiography established Crockett as a larger-than-life American hero, and introduced tall tales of the frontier to a popular audience. Written in 1834, two years before the legendary Tennessean met his fate at the Alamo, this book begins during Crockett's early childhood and ends just before he entered the U.S. Congress.

by Ryan R. Gale. Softbound, 169 pages, 11" x 8-1/2". The rich history of the Northwest fur trade is brought to life through written words of people who took part in it, the vast amounts of relics they left behind and the work of period artists. Using these resources, the material cultures of the natives, traders, and voyageurs become much clearer. Taken from official company records and journals. Loaded with color pictures and illustrations from collections all around the country.

by Carl Benn. Softbound, 96 pages, 6-1/2" x 9-1/2". The War of 1812-1815 was a bloody confontation that tore through the American frontier, the British colonies of upper and lower Canada, and parts of the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico. This exciting new volume explains what led to America's decision to take up arms against Great Britain and assesses the three terrible years of fighting that followed on land and sea, where battles such as Lake Erie and Lake Champlain launched American naval traditions. Fully illustrated with color and black and white photos, original art, and maps.  

by Brendan Morrissey . Illustrated by Adam Hook. Softbound, 100 pages, 7-1/4" x 9-1/4". The Saratoga campaign is believed to be the turning point of the Revolution. Full-color battle scenes, illustrations and maps. Accounts of one of history's greatest conflicts, detailing command strategies, tacticts and battle experiences of the opposing forces throughout the crutial stages of the campaign.

by Rene Chartrand. Illustrated by Richard Hook. Softbound, 64 pages, 7" x 10". This book details the appearance, careers and personalities of the commanders on both sides. Famous figures such as George Washington and Lord Cornwallis are covered, along with less well-known commanders such as Admiral Suffern and Bernando de Galvez. Lavishly illustrated with original portraits and engravings as well as full color artwork showing the rich details of original uniforms.

by Rene Chartrand. Illustrated by Gerry & Samuel Embleton. Softbound, 48 pages, 7" x 10". This book uses newly discovered material to offer a more modern analysis of the units and the uniforms of a still-controversial army: the many thousands of American colonists who chose to fight for King George during the Revolution. The author covers units raised for service against the Spanish in the Floridas, the Caribbean islands and Central America. The text is illustrated with portraits, photographs, and with color reconstructions by Gerry Embleton, whose work on 18th centurydress was recently exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute.