American Frontier Collection

This collection includes items in addition to those appearing in “Portable Water and Food Ware,” “Portable Shelter,” and “Portable Bedding and Pack.”

Notes on illustrations:

Muzzleloader ammunition included round balls, as well as .58 and .69 caliber bullets commonly called “Minie balls.”

Family heirlooms help us realize how close we are to the frontier era. In the photograph of the log cabin built by my great-grandfather, my grandmother can be seen standing on the left, in front of the home where she was born in 1891. The foundation brick and stones from the log cabins of my great, great-great, and great-great-great grandparents (bottom to top) date back to the early 1800s.

Covered Wagon c. 1870s
Cast iron kettle and cookware
Muzzleloader ammunition used in the nineteenth century through the Civil War
Barlow knife and whetstone used by my great-grandfather, who is seated in front of the log cabin he built
Rocks and local-made brick from the foundations of my ancestors’ log cabins
Quilt with postage stamp pattern
Quilt with clam shell pattern
Quilt with tumbler pattern
Quilt with star pattern
Quilt with grandmother’s flower garden pattern
Replica canteen, tomahawk, hunting knife with ferrule, and homemade hunting knife
Replica powder horn and possibles bag