A few sections from William Hamilton's "My Sixty Years on the Plains". There are many fights involving archery in the book, but this is a bit past the musket age, so I'm limiting my quotations to Hamilton's interesting comments regarding archery. Read it for yourself if you want: https://archive.org/stream/mysixtyyearsonp00hamigoog/mysixtyyearsonp00hamigoog_djvu.txt Wet buckskin proof against arrows: All … Continue reading Frontiersman William T. Hamilton’s Thoughts on Archery
Year: 2023
Frontiersman Big-foot Wallace’s Thoughts on Archery
This is a section from the biography of the frontiersman and Texas Ranger, William "Big-foot" Wallace. These are Wallace's opinions on archery. While they are a bit after the musket era, Wallace was a veteran Indian-fighter and his comments are interesting. One caveat: these may not be Wallace's exact words. They were "written out from … Continue reading Frontiersman Big-foot Wallace’s Thoughts on Archery
Bow Vs Musket in East-Central Africa- Henry Stanley
From the explorer Henry Stanley's book, "How I Found Livingstone". In 1871 Stanley, with funding from the New York Herald, launched an expedition from the city of Zanzibar on the east coast of Africa with the goal of discovering if the missionary Dr. Livingstone was dead. Stanley caught up to Livingstone at Lake Tanganyika. Stanley … Continue reading Bow Vs Musket in East-Central Africa- Henry Stanley
Bow Vs. Musket 