Archive: February 2015

Shotgun ballistics for these old weapons could be difficult

Shotgun Ballistics in the 19th Century

Making Your Own Ammunition Laura Ingalls Wilder described how Pa made his own bullets in Little House in the Big Woods. Isolated in the Wisconsin wilderness of the 1870s, the Ingalls family lived in a log cabin and had to make many things themselves...

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Cadaver Dogs in the 19th Century

A landscape of odors…. Compared to canines, humans smell in black and white. We live in a world of sight and sound, words and letters. If you wrote a novel for dogs, you’d have to use smells – it would be a scratch-and-sniff book. Dogs find...

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