DISCLAIMER... 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS... 6 THE MOST IMPORTANT THING...19 HOW THE EARLY PIONEERS BUILT THE SELF- FEEDING FIRE...24

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1 DISCLAIMER... 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS... 6 THE MOST IMPORTANT THING...19 HOW THE EARLY PIONEERS BUILT THE SELF- FEEDING FIRE...24 What You ll Need How to Build the Self-Feeding Fire Fast Tips THE SURVIVAL FOOD OF THE U.S. CIVIL WAR - HOW TO MAKE HARDTACK BISCUITS...30 Ingredients Hardware LOST PIONEER RECIPES FROM THE 18TH CENTURY...43 Mud Apples Gorge Pasta Hot Water Cornbread Sweet Potatoes in Cream and Butter Scrambled Egg, Asparagus and Bread Dinner

2 1875 Cottage Cheese Blue-Flower Featherbed Side Pork and Mormon Gravy Cooked Cabbage Salad Corned Beef Soda Biscuits Skillet Trout Lemon Pie Filling Winter Red Flannel Hash Mormon Johnnycake Fried Apples Spotted Pup Oatmeal Pancakes Spider Corn Bread Potato Pancakes Bean Soup Pepper and Eggs Bean Sausage Poor man s Meal Dumplings Beans & Ham Hocks Glazed Turnips Milk Toast Cinnamon Sugar Toast Cornmeal Mush Elk Backstrap with Spiced Plum Sauce Vinegar Lemonade HOW NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS AND EARLY PIONEERS MADE PEMMICAN Nutritional Qualities

3 Directions Ingredients: Rendering the Fat Dried Meat Preparation How Much Do I Need? HOW THE SHERIFFS FROM THE FRONTIERS DEFENDED THEIR VILLAGES AND TOWNS...81 Crime in the West Equipment Organization The Sheriff Deputy Sheriffs Posses Bringing it up to date Showing the Flag Raising a posse MAKING YOUR OWN BEVERAGES: BEER TO STRONGER STUFF Making Beer Basic Recipe

4 Ingredients Creating the Malt: Malted Barley Making the Yeast A Word on Hops Making the Beer A Bit of the Stronger Stuff: Distilling your Own Moonshine Making a Still An Alembic Still A Homemade Still A Schematic of a Homemade Still SPYCRAFT MILITARY CORRESPONDENCE DURING THE 1700S TO 1900S Rectal Acorn, Silver Ball, and Quill Letters Invisible Ink Mask Letters WILD WEST GUNS FOR SHTF AND A GUIDE TO ROLLING YOUR OWN AMMO Modern Firearms Handguns Rifles Ammunition Reloading Components The Cartridge Case Processing Brass Cartridge Cases

5 Primer Pocket Bullets and Projectiles The Cast Lead Bullet Casting Bullets The Bullet Mold The Lead Melting Pot The Ladle The Melting Process The Casting Process Swaging Bullets Machining Bullets The Final Word on Lead Bullets Powder Black Powder Smokeless Powder Primers Primer Size Reloading Equipment The Lee Loader The Single Stage Press The Progressive Press Reloading Dies Reloading Bench The Tumbler The Powder Scale Manuals Storage of Ammunition and Components How Much Ammunition is Enough? Recycling

6 Work Practices HOW OUR ANCESTORS MADE HERBAL POULTICE TO HEAL THEIR WOUNDS What is a Poultice? A Few Poultice Recipes Cataplasma Aromaticum Soothing Poultice: For Stomach Aches: A Mustard Poultice A Native American Recipe to Treat an Abscess: A Word of Warning from The Past WHAT OUR ANCESTORS WERE FORAGING FOR OR HOW TO WILDCRAFT YOUR TABLE Arrowhead (Sagittaria Latifolia) Asparagus (Asparagus Officinalis) Bulrush (Scirpus acutus, Scirpus validus) Cattails (Typha Latifolia, Typha angustifolia) Chickweed, Common Chicory (Cirhorium Intybus) Cleavers Dandelion (Taraxacum Officionale) Henbit (Lamium Amplexicaule) Lady's Thumb ( Polygonum persicaria) Lambs Quarters (Chenopodium album, Chenopodium berlanieri) Mint (Mentha piperita, Mentha spicata) Mulberry (Morus alba, Morus rubra) Mustard, Black (Brassica Nigra)

7 Peppergrass (Lapidium Virginicum) Pigweed (Amaranthus Retroflexus, Amaranthus Hybridus) 187 Plantain (Plantago major, Plantago minor) Pennycress, Field (Thlaspi Arvense) Prickly Lettuce Purslane (Portulaca Oleracea) Quickweed ( Galinsoga Parviflora) Reed Grass ( Phragmites communis) Shepherds Purse (Capsella Bursa-pastoris) Sour Dock (Rumex crispus) Storksbill (Erodium Cicutarium) Watercress (Nasturtium Officinale) HOW OUR ANCESTORS NAVIGATED WITHOUT USING A GPS SYSTEM Shadow Tip Method Watch Method Using the Stars Letting the Sun Guide You Letting the Moon Guide You at Night Moss and Other Vegetation Making a Compass HOW OUR FOREFATHERS MADE KNIVES Forging a Knife Blank Forging the Blade Forging the Tang Grinding the Blade Hardening the Blade

8 Making the Handle To Make Your Own Knife HOW NORTH CALIFORNIA NATIVE AMERICANS BUILD THEIR SEMI-SUBTERRANEAN ROUNDHOUSE Building the Semi-subterrain Roundhouse Supporting Poles: Roof Construction: Roundhouse Entrance Fire Pit Summary OUR ANCESTOR S GUIDE TO ROOT CELLARS 234 History The Right Space for the Job Climate What to Keep Where Creating the Ideal Conditions Humidity Dirt Floors Wet Cloth or Paper Standing Water Bury Your Treasure A Condensation Nightmare Ventilation Storage Ideas

9 In-Garden Storage Insulation Things That Do and Do Not Belong in Your Root Cellar Proper Storage Cull the Crops Preparing Vegetables for Root Cellar Storage Curing Winter Vegetables for Storage Pests Organization GOOD OLD FASHION COOKING ON AN OPEN FLAME Cast Iron Cooking Care and Use Roasting Meats On a Spit On a String Dutch Oven Cooking The Right Temperature Companion Tools Recipes Past and Future Colcannon Meat Pies LEARNING FROM OUR ANCESTORS HOW TO PRESERVE WATER How Can I Make Sure That the Water Is Clean?

10 Where Should I Hide or Store My Stock of Water? HOW AND WHY I PREFER TO MAKE SOAP WITH MODERN INGREDIENTS History Why Modern Ingredients Understanding The Process Irreplaceable Ingredients Machinery and Equipment for Making Soap at Home Possible Soap Additives Essential Oils So, How do You Make Soap? Methodology TEMPORARILY INSTALLING A WOOD-BURNING STOVE DURING EMERGENCIES Why a Wood-Burning Stove Temporarily Installing Your Wood-Burning Stove Temporarily Installing the Chimney Heating with Wood MAKING TRADITIONAL AND SURVIVAL BARK BREAD How to Make Sourdough Starter (The Rising Agent People Used Before 1900) How to Make Tasty Bread Like in Making Bark Bread (Famine Bread)

11 TRAPPING IN WINTER FOR BEAVER AND MUSKRAT JUST LIKE OUR FOREFATHERS DID Why Our Forefathers Trapped The Best Places To Trapp For Beaver And Muskrat Their Local Habitats The Types Of Traps You'll Use For Beaver And Muskrat Finding the Land Trails How To Set The Foot Hold Trap How to Set a Body Grip Trap Tanning Selling at the Trading Post And There You Have It HOW TO BUILD A SMOKEHOUSE AND SMOKE FISH Cold Smoking Before We Start: Woods for Flavoring Your Fish Cold Smoking the Fish First Things First: Curing the Fish Making a Cold Smoker Creating the smoker Hot Smokin! Recipes Using Smoked Fish PRACTICAL SURVIVAL LESSONS FROM THE DONNER PARTY The Story of the Donner Party The Fatal Decision Escape and Rescue Attempts

12 Survival Lessons from the Donner Party LEARNING FROM OUR ANCESTORS HOW TO TAKE CARE OF OUR HYGIENE WHEN THERE ISN'T ANYTHING TO BUY Soap Making Basic Recipe for Soap Making Lye Water from Wood Ash Collecting the Fat Cooking up the Soap: The Cold Process Method Preparation Recipe: Making Your Own Signature Soaps Medicinal Soaps Homemade Toothpaste Basic Baking Soda Recipe Clay Toothpaste To Taste HOW OUR FOREFATHERS MADE SNOW SHOES FOR SURVIVAL Anatomy of a Snowshoe Making Survival Snowshoes Using Your Snowshoes

13 HOW OUR FOREFATHERS BUILT THEIR SAWMILLS, GRAIN MILLS AND STAMPING MILLS How the Overshot Wheel Works Making That Force Usable Gears Belts For Reciprocating Saws Don't Forget Lubrication Building Your Own Water Wheel GINGER BEER MAKING SODA THE OLD FASHIONED WAY The Deadliest Drink? Drunken Sailors Beer Gets Boring Spicing It Up An Easier Brew An Unusual Organism Doing It Yourself