Fascinating World of Early Tools & Trades

Fifty-five fascinating and informative articles on early tools and trades, selected from several thousand published in the journal of the Early American Industries Association over the past 60 years.

Some were written by experts, others the first hand accounts of early craftsmen, pioneers, and travelers, they cover a wide variety of subjects including: lumber rafting, blacksmiths' hammer signals, many uses of the horn, nail making in Virginia, making barrels by hand, and many more.

Hardcover-407 pages, 187933500X, 6 ½" 9 ½"