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Departments

Cover 23

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

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