The March/April 2013 issue is out!  For a sneak peak at our featured articles, please see the list below.

1.  Hoppus & Hatchet:  "...the principal and handsomest trading-post on the Missouri River..": A Brief Introduction to Fort Union by Rodney L. Lassey

The December/January issue is out!  For a sneak peak at our featured articles, please see the list below.

1.  Arts & Artisans: Axes in New France: Part III: Casse-t

êtes (French Tomahawks) 

Hello readers! 

We'd like to inform you of a change to one of our articles in the last issue, October/November 2012, The Punchbowl:  Bent's Old Fort Living History Workshop by Michael Schaubs. If you have tried to use the contact information mentioned at the end of the article, it is better to email greg_holt@npe.gov than holt@nps.gov as was printed. Thank you

Also at this time, we are calling for A Matter of Taste articles. If you have a documented colonial recipes or food-topic articles, we'd love to hear from you! Please see our Writing Guidelines for submitting articles!

Hello again!  Our next issue will be mailed out soon!  For a sneak peak at our featured articles, please see the list below.


1.  Arts & Artisans:  Axes in New France: Part II: French Colonial-made Axes 
         by Kevin Gladysz and Ken Hamilton
2.  Hoppus & Hatchet: Thunderstruck Shoal Trail - The Longhunters' Way West 
         by Sam D. Perry
3.  Hearthstone:  Recreating the Eighteenth-Century Punch and Judy Show: Part II  
         by Wayne Krefting
4.  The Early Americas:  Captain Thomas Hutchins, First Geographer of the 
         United States: Part II by Silvio A. Bedini
5.  To Arms:  The Chief Who Never Was: William Weatherford and the Creek War (1813-1814) 
         by Colonel P. Michael Phillips
6.  The Discerning Re-enactor:  Thunder Down Under (Or, how I became a 1760 North 
         American Fur Trapper by Cam Cowled
7.  The Punchbowl:  Bent's Old Fort Living History Workshop  by Michael Schaubs 
8.  Musings Around the Inkpot - Our letters to and from the editor.

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