17C American Women: 1607 The Settlement of Jamestown by Captain John S...

17C American Women: 1607 The Settlement of Jamestown by Captain John S...: This narrative is taken from the 3rd book of the 5th volume "The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles: Tog...

A walk to the Theodore Indigenous Grinding Grooves

Dave's ACT: A walk to the Theodore Indigenous Grinding Grooves...

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17C American Women: Food Eaten by Early Virginia Colonists

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18th Century Period Fire Lighting Methods. Ebook.

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Primitive Fire Lighting-Flint & Steel & Fire Bow.

Title: Primitive Fire Lighting
ID: 9784776
Category: History
Description: “Primitive Fire Lighting”, is a hands on guide to how to make fire with flint and steel and fire bow. This includes some history, a variety of methods, tinder plants identification, and tinder production, tips on fire place construction and use, how to prepare and lay a fire, wet weather fire lighting and magnifying glass fire lighting. The skills and methods in this book will be of interest to a wider range of readers including survivalists, historical re-enactors, bush-walkers and campers, historical–trekkers and even historical novel writers. Although the plant identifications list is mainly Australian it also has some information for England, Europe and America.
Publisher: Keith H. Burgess
Copyright Year: © 2010
Language: English
Country: Australia

Table of Contents
Illustrations. 4
FOREWORD. 6
FLINT AND STEEL FIRE LIGHTING. 8
PLANT FIBRE TINDERS: 11
TINDER PREPARATION. 15
Tinder preparation-charring: 15
OTHER FLINT and STEEL FIRE LIGHTING METHODS: 16
Emergency methods: 17
A WORD ABOUT BLACK POWDER: 17
THE CAMPFIRE FIREPLACE: 18
READING GLASS/MAGNIFYING GLASS FIRE LIGHTING 20
WET WEATHER FIRE LIGHTING. 21
A FINAL WORD OF CAUTION. 23
FIRE-BOW FIRE LIGHTING. 24
Introduction 24
FIRE-BOW FIRE LIGHTING. 25
A Brief Overview. 25
The Parts of the Fire-bow. 26
The Bow. 26
The Drill Piece. 27
The Fireboard. 29
The Tinder-board. 30
The Bearing Block. 31
The Bowstring. 32
Tinder. 32
Making Fire. 32
Making Cordage. 37
The Step for making Cordage. 38
AFTERWORD. 40
Fire steel suppliers. 45
About the author. 45

5.83" x 8.26", saddle-stitch binding, white interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-colour exterior ink.
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17C American Women: 1610 "Newes from Virginia" by Richard Rich

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17C American Women: Virginia, John Smith's Account of The Starving Tim...

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Getting dressed in the 18th century. Ladies.

Southern Cross Free Trappers Newsletter Vol. 59, June 2017

http://freetrappers.org.au/newsletters/

17C American Women: 17C British Woman by Wenceslaus Hollar (European-b...

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Pirates and Privateers History Page.

Stories & Articles Here: http://www.cindyvallar.com/pirates.html

Man finds 17th century grenade from Schiedam shipwreck at Dollar Cove Gunwalloe Cornwall

More Information Here: http://www.cornwalllive.com/man-finds-17th-century-grenade-from-schiedam-shipwreck-at-dollar-cove-gunwalloe-cornwall/story-30394157-detail/story.html

18th Century Jacobite Objects.

Backsword (detail) presented to Prince Charles Edward Stuart by James, 3rd Duke of Perth c. 1740. — Pictures courtesy of National Museums Scotland.

Movement of a pocket watch dug up in a field near Prestonpans, made by I Moncrief of London, late 17th-early 18th century.

Tabard or herald’s coat, Scottish, early 18th century.

Targe possibly used by Macdonald of Keppoch at Culloden.

More Information Here: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/features/article/jacobites-made-famous-in-outlander-focus-of-scottish-exhibition

Jacobite sites.

https://www.jacobitetrail.co.uk/

17C American Women: 17C British Woman by Wenceslaus Hollar (European-b...

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Museum of Appalachia Independence Day Celebration & Anvil Shoot

While most Americans celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, we mark the occasion by using gunpowder to launch a 200-pound anvil sky-high! Join us as we carry on this pioneer tradition. 

Anvil shoots are scheduled for:

10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 2:30 p.m. 

 More Information: http://museumofappalachia.org/events/july-4th-celebration-anvil-shoot/about-the-july-4th-celebration-anvil-shoot

John Kimber's mourning brooch from the 1700s with his inscription

Story of this brooch here: http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/how-tiny-18th-century-brooch-109959

Making Gun Flints.

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18th Century Brass Tinderbox with Burn Marks Inside.

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Images Credit: http://www.ebay.com/itm/18th-century-outstanding-REV-WAR-HEAVY-BRASS-TINDER-BOX-LIFT-TOP-2-1-2-INCH-/311891543732?nma=true&si=D8Y3Hz9P4kMQwC2JRSYBZT9zQP4%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557;

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17th Century Sea Chart.

Portolan chart of the Mediterranean, 1637. 

Newly Discovered 17th-Century Secret Sea Chart Leads Bonhams' Fine Book Sale

 https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2017/06/newly-discovered-17th-century-secret-sea-chart-leads-bonhams-fine-book-sale.phtml

Frontier Art. Time Of The Warrior By Robert Griffing.

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http://wydaily.com/2017/06/06/colonial-williamsburg-plans-tomahawk-throwing-range-in-historic-area-news/

Australian Survival and Preppers..: Testing For Edible Plants.

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The King's 8th Journal.

This blog can be found here: http://kings8thjournal.com/category/articles/

17C American Women: Portrait of an 17C New England British-American Wo...

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The “Catawba Deerskin Map.” LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/2005625337

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More Information Here: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/catawba-deerskin-map-native-american-colonies

"Once Upon a Time": The work of Jacob Sell the Elder.

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Into the West - Part 3 (Dreams and Schemes)

Into the West - Part 2 (Manifest Destiny)

Into the West - Part 1 (Wheel to the Stars)

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