Smoke Signals

Pre-1840 Living History Publications:

"Muzzleloader Magazine" * Route 5, Box 347-M * Texarkana, TX 75501-9442

"Smoke and Fire News" * PO Box 166 * Grand Rapids, OH 43522

"The Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly" * The Museum of the Fur Trade * 6321 Highway 20 * Chadron, NE 69337

"Tomahawk & Long Rifle" * The AMM * 3483 Squires * Conklin, MI 49403

"On the Trail" * PO Box 276 * Sumiton, AL 35148-0276

"Backwoodsman" * PO Box 627 * Westcliffe, CO 81252

Merchants / Suppliers

• G. Gedney Godwin The Sutler of Mount Misery - Specialists in 18th Century Military Reproductions

• Cabin Creek Muzzleloading - Authentic Reproductions of Colonial America's Finest Flintlock Rifles and Accouterments

• GooseBay Workshops - Handcrafted tin ware, copperware and brass wares.

• The Trunk Shoppe - Historical Trunks

• The Mountain Top Trading Company - The online side of The Mountain Top Trading Company; knives, horns, shooting accessories and other trade goods!

• Olde World Fine Clays - Hand rolled clay pipes of the highest quality.

• Kramer's Best Antique Improver - For a great protective finish or restoration coating this is the one used by all the quality builders.

• Barkertown Sutlers - High quality clothing for the 1730 - 1770 period.

• The Colonial Horn Shoppe - 18th century style powder horns and measurers.

• Military Warehouse - Wholesale reproduction items

• Hatman & Warpath's Trading Post - 1750's to 1840's Renactor and Buckskinning Supplies, Tents, Blacksmith items, and other Accourements

• The Rouge Lucette - Wooden Lucet Weaving Tools and Book

• Lee Archery & Blk. Powder Accoutrements & Raw Horns - Longbows, Raw Holstein Horns, Finished Pwdr. Horns, Hand Woven Straps, Shooting Pouches, and More

• Red Mountain Art - long rifles and indian art for sale

• FIRE from STEEL - Custom forged fire steels, accouterments, and carpet bags

• LONGHUNTER LEATHER CO. - making and supplying 18th century goods, wallets, canteens, haversacks, and heirloom quality hunting pouches

• Thread The Needle -18th Century Clothing - Custom tailoring of Fine Fitting clothes for over 30 years

• DM Trading - reproduction trade silver

• Kyle Carroll - Art by native Missourian and avid re-enactor Kyle Carroll

• Minx & Tims Camp:Custom Quillwork and Wampum - Specializing in Eastern Woodland Quillwork,Books,Wampum

• The Scarlet Scarab--Temptations & Delights of the Past - Quality Wool Blankets, Oilskin Cloth, and other fine accoutrements

• Boone's Trace Trading Company - 18th Century Reproductions, Reenacting and Trekking Supplies, Music and Educational Programs

• Richard Baldwin, Regimental Tailor - specializing in 18th century regimentals

• Fort Downing Trading Co. - Quality clothing at affordable prices

• Red Threads - Native Textiles and Handmade Items by David B. Wells

• Loyalist Arms And Repairs - huge selection of muzzle loading firearms and accessories for museums, reenactors, film, etc.

• DOUBLE EDGE FORGE - 18thC & 19thC Knives, hatchets and accouterments made in a period manner.

• J Switzer Cutlery - Knives

• American Pioneer Video - How-to, educational and Reenacting videos

• Middlesex Village Trading - Quality Reproductions at affordable prices

• Joe DeLaRonde Forge - Handmade knives, etc.

• EARLY RUSTIC ARMS - GUNMAKER

• Historically correct Knapsacks and Haversacks - knapsacks and haversacks

• Adolphsen Bros Custom Muzzleloading Firearms - Display of products

• Quillwork by Swift Fox - Eastern Woodlands Style Quillwork

• Povertyhill Turkey Calls - Handcrafted Turkey Calls

• R E Davis & Company - THE supplier of locks,tomahawks and other muzzleloading gear.

• Ken Scott Hunting Pouches - Maker of fine American frontier Hunting Pouches & Accoutrements, Leather bound Journals, Folk Art & More!

• L. Moler firelock riflesmith - Maker of custom firelocks

• Treaty Elm Traders - Period correct tumplines, fingerwoven goods, twined bags and other equipment for those going into the middleground

• Blount Knives - Sells 18th century hand-forged cutlery.

• The Wolf Trader - Plains Indian Style Jewelry And Leather Bags

• Blue Heron Mercantile - Woodsrunner's Supplies and Provisions

• Jason Lonon, Woodworker & Blacksmith - Hand forged colonial ironware & mountain dulcimers

• Harry McCarty Cutlery - 17th,18th&19th century reproductions and interpretations

• WILDCAT CREEK TRADERS - handmade pouches,haversacks,and other equipment

• White Fox Traders - a source for great early print fabrics

• Tuckahoe Trading Company - Hard to find, High Quality Reproductions

• Historically Inspirted Art at Nor' West Company - Featuring the works of Robt. Griffing and John Buxton

• RawHolsteinHorns - Supplier of Raw Holstein Cattle Horns

• The Rifle Shoppe - Welcome to The Rifle Shoppe online Catalog.

• Colonial Reproductions - Maker of 18th century wooden items

• Will Shaw & Son - Harness and Leatherworkers - Leather flasks, Bombards, Jacks, & leather covered bottles.

• Burnley & Trowbridge Company - Purveyors of linen, wool, linsey-woolsey, fustian & cotton. Also patterns, buttons, tapes, buckles, clasps, threads, publications and sundry items.

• Idaho Knife Works - Maker of Custom Knives of the 18th and 19th century

• Reproduction Knives - Maker of Custom Knives of the 18th and 19th century

• Scrimshaw By Gary Fiedler - quality scrimshaw on powderhorns

• Boone rifles and hunting pouches - Specializing in early Southern flintlock rifles for the trekker and longhunter since 1967.

• Wooded Hamlet Designs - Ribbons, braids, tapes and embellishments.

• Powderhorn Traders - 1840 Archery & supplies

• Wise Custom Knives - Hand forged knives for the 18th and 19th century trekkers and re-enactors.

• Kootenai House Trading Post-secure online shopping - Northwest Montana online Trading Post selling various items relating to 1800's,and more!

• Folly Hill Enterprises, Ltd. Historic Textiles, Trades, and Consultants - Providing authentic reproductions and research to museums, historic sites, and living history interpreters

• Carolina Calicoes - All manner of 18th century fabrics.

• Old Dominion Forge - 18th century knives, swords and pewter

• Hand crafted Hunting Pouches Accoutrement & Leather Bound Journals - Great site to see the Hunting Pouches others have imitated, but never duplicated.

• Powder Horns and Quillwork by Scott and Cathy Sibley - Investment Grade Decorated Powder Horns

• Northern plains quillwork - Buffalo days northern plains quillwork

• Nor' West Company - Alaska's Living History Specialists

• Family Heirloom Weavers - period fabric - Fabrics suitable for 18th c. Clothes

• The Chicagoland Canoe Base - Builder of replica birchbark canoes.

• Eholee-Opal Designs - Quality Finger Weaving & Southeastern Clothing

• October Country Muzzleloading - 18th Century Powder Horns, Damascus Knife Blades, Hand forged awl & Vent picks, Tin Eye glass cases & Large Bore ball, molds and patches.

• Colonial Gun Works - Muskets, Longrifles, Trade Guns and accessories.

• Caldwell Mountain Copper - Copper buckets and kettles

• Fugawee Corporation - Makes of Historical Footwear!

• Frenchfusil.com - Custom-made French smoothbores.

• Eitnier Rifles - IRON MOUNTED SOUTHERN GUNS

• Shayna Sweigart - Handwoven Straps - Custom Straps & Sashes of the 18th Century.

• Otter's Trade Silver - Purveyor of Hand-Crafted 18th Century Trade Silver

• White River Trader - 18th century clothing in sizes up to 6X, period trunks, portmanteaus, hand made one of a kind shooting bags of bark tan and vegetable tan leather, period haversacks, powder horns and raw horns, & bags for shot

• Triple "J" Trade Company - Handcrafted Shooting Bags & Powder Horns

• Lehigh Valley Spinning Wheels - Fine Hand Crafted Spinning Wheels

• Ghost Forge - 18th & 17th Century clothiers for the full-figured and petite individuals

• Red Bear Arts - Gun Engraving and Period Clothing

• Thread Bare Stitchery - Clothing

• Swamp Fox Knives - Hand-forged period correct early American knives

• Merchants of the Middlewaters - Shopping site for Historical Illustrations, Trade Silver, Historical Interpretations, Festival Le Kansa

• More than just Folk Music - 18th and early 19th century popular and folk music performed on period instruments by Jim Krause

• Trailhead Trade Company - Shirts, hunting shirts, trade shirts, waistcoats, and longhunter wares.

• Cobb Creek Merchants - Clothing and copper merchants for the re-enactor.

• Wilde Weavery - Fine handweaving, leatherwork, accoutrements and books.

• Chuck Leonard's Page - Trade Silver and Jewelry

• Barking Rock Farm - More trade silver

• Mitch Lige's homepage - Handcrafted trade silver

• Small Things Forgotten - 18th century powderhorns and horn containers

• Horst & McCann - French Flints, Arms and several other items of interest

• North Star West - Northwest Guns spoken here

• Middlesex Village Trading - Arms, rifles, pistols and several other items of interest

• Clearwater Hats - Head coverings, hats, and good research information