Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    No ideology, no agenda (guest editorial by P.J. O'Rourke)

Recipes:
    Apples Galore

Book Reviews
   Wild Game Cookbook
   American Game Cooking

Magazine review:
   The American Spectator

Just for kids:
    A backwoods kitchen garden

Contents

Building

• Trusses — low-cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Alternative energy

• Solar panel testing and repair

Self sufficiency/Food/Guns

• Harvesting from nature
• Slaughtering and butchering
• Prepare your rifle before deer season
• Harvesting the blacktail deer
• Nuclear superstition

Money

• Planning to make a living the country
• Saving is the first step to an independent country life

Farm/Garden

• Here's a step-by-step guide to wholesome, safe canning

Americana/Society

• History of the Oregon trail
• Reliving the Oregon trail
• Conestoga, the prairie super freighter