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How Sailors from the 17 Century Preserved Water in Their Ships for Months on End 81
Long Term Water Storage ....................................................................................... 82
Filtering Water Supplies .......................................................................................... 87
Instructions on How to Make a Charcoal Japanese Water Filter: ...................................................... 88
Silver Coins ............................................................................................................. 89
Rainwater Harvesting ....................................................................................................................... 90
Harvesting Rainwater ....................................................................................................................... 90
How Our Ancestors Made Candles And Glue out of Pine Resin .................................... 91
Necessary Ingredients ...................................................................................................................... 92
Step One: Melting the Resin ............................................................................................................. 92
Step Two (Optional): Filtering The Resin ........................................................................................... 93
Step Three: Making the Candles ....................................................................................................... 94
How To Make Glue Out of Pine Resin ...................................................................... 96
Crush the Charcoal, and Mix It with the Resin .................................................................................. 97
How the Sheriffs from the Frontiers Defended Their Villages and Towns .................. 100
Crime in the West ................................................................................................. 102
Equipment ............................................................................................................ 103
Guns .............................................................................................................................................. 103
Communications ................................................................................................... 105
Organization ......................................................................................................... 106
The Sheriff ............................................................................................................ 106
Deputy Sheriffs ..................................................................................................... 107
Posses ................................................................................................................... 107
Bringing It Up To Date ........................................................................................... 108
Showing the Flag .................................................................................................. 109
Raising a Posse ..................................................................................................... 111
What Our Ancestors Were Foraging For or ............................................................... 114
How to Wildcraft Your Table .................................................................................... 114
Prickly Lettuce ................................................................................................................................ 115
Wild Lettuce (One of The Best Natural Painkillers) ......................................................................... 116
Wild Lettuce Extract Recipe ............................................................................................................ 116
Arrowhead (Sagittaria Latifolia) ...................................................................................................... 118
Asparagus (Asparagus Officinalis) ................................................................................................... 118
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