Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    Politics, self reliance and Bill Clinton

Book Reviews
   Uprisings, The Whole Grain Bakers' Book
   The Modern Homestead Manual

Just for kids:
    Some pioneer recipes

Original poems:
   John Silveira

Contents

Recipes

• American food — it's as varied as the melting pot
• Try traditional early American fried squirrel
• Barbecue a whole goat (and more) in an imu
• Your throw-away fish can be keepers if you know how to prepare them right
• Homemade hunter's soup
• Poor man's shrimp cocktail on perch, and...
• Sourdough with substance
• Venison recipes
• Pemmican — the all-purpose food

Building/Tools/Housing

• Building an expensive log house — the cheap way

Independent energy

• Making and using a solar cooker
• Converting your gas car to electric is no shocker

Country living

• David and the D-4...a short story about growing up
• Preventing and surviving stove and chimney fires
• Some thoughts about my wood cookstove
• Learning in the pickle patch

Farm/Garden

• How to keep those excess eggs
• Turkeys — fun and profitable and not as dumb as you think

Crafts

• Make a "slit shirt"

Americana/History

• Collecting old phonograph records is fun and educational
• Former first ladies — beautiful, brilliant, crazy