Combines a detailed history of the ancient craft with a guide for the beginner interested in starting his own forge

Art of Blacksmithing

Arts & Photography

McRaven, Charles

Bealer, Alex W.

History & Criticism

Harpercollins

If you want to know how an 18th-century iron hinge was made, or how an intricate trivet was formed, or how a muzzle-loading rifle barrel was welded, this book has the answers. If you would like to set up a blacksmith shop, this book describes and illustrates the equipment and the techniques developed in more than 6,000 years of working iron by hand. It respects the specialized skills of the smith, and creates nostalgia for the color and excitement of the village smithy. Covers every aspect of the fundamental craft on which the civilization of the Iron Age was built. Bealer drew material from the few available books on ironworking and completed his research by talking and working with iron workers and armor experts in the U.S. and Europe. Over 500 illustrations.

The Art of Blacksmithing

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Funk & Wagnalls

A young reader's history of the tragic Trail of Tears march from 1837 to 1838 describes the enforced journey of the Cherokee nation from Georgia to Arkansas, a period during which thousands of Native Americans died. Reissue.

Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears

Children's Books

History

Little,Brown & Co

From 1837 to 1838, thousands of Cherokee Indians were marched from their homelands in Georgia to exile in Arkansas by the same white men they has once befriended. The Cherokees journeyed through bitter cold and blazing heat, with little food or water. One out of every four died --- and with them died a culture that had existed for hundreds of years, a civilization that had existed for hundred of years, a civilization that had embraced the white man's ways only to perish through his betrayal. Today, only the names remain of this once great nation.

Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

A history of the Cherokee people living in the mountains of Georgia before and after the coming of the white men and of their forced removal to Arkansas during the presidency of Van Buren

Handsome in appearance, simple in construction, and remarkably efficient, early American tools were true marvels of ingenuity. In the hands of skilled workers, they were used to create everything from simple shelters, wagons, and fences to intricately carved chairs, fireplace mantels, and door moldings. In this richly illustrated book, author and master craftsman Alex Bealer tells the fascinating story of early American woodworking, enthusiastically describing and clearly depicting a wide array of devices — from axes wielded by frontiersmen to clear the land and build log cabins, to carpenters' saws, planes, and hammers, and furniture makers' chisels, calipers, bevels, and lathes. More than 300 drawings and photographs illustrate implements as they were once actually used in colonial times and as they are still employed today by many woodworkers. A book that will delight crafters at all levels of expertise, The Tools That Built America is must reading for lovers of antique tools, Americana enthusiasts, and anyone sufficiently inspired by the revival of woodcrafting to build their own furniture or shelter.

The Tools that Built America (Dover Books on Americana)

Americas

Dover Publications

Describes and illustrates the woodworking tools of early frontiersmen, carpenters, housewrights, and cabinetmakers, their uses, and the results of their use

The Tools That Built America

CROWN PUB.

A revised edition of a classic guide to woodworking methods provides valuable information on the evolution of wood products, the types and characteristics of wood, essential tools, and such techniques as planing, splitting, boring, chiseling, and shaping.

Old Ways of Working Wood

Random House Value Publishing

Only the Names Remain : The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears

Demco Media

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Art of Blacksmithing

The Art of Blacksmithing

The Art of Blacksmithing

Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears

Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears

Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears

The Tools that Built America (Dover Books on Americana)

The Tools That Built America

Old Ways of Working Wood

Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears