25 FORGOTTEN Hunting Knives Frontier Families Forged From Scrap When the Store Was 200 Miles Away!

25 Forgotten Frontier Hunting Knives Pioneer Families Forged From Scrap Metal That the Law Once Banned A legislator was stabbed dead on the floor of the Arkansas House in 1837 over a joke about a wolf. Within weeks, states across the South were writing laws about knives, not pistols. Alabama taxed a single blade a hundred dollars, about twenty-six hundred dollars today. Two hundred miles from the nearest store, that meant nothing. Nobody was ever coming to find a knife a man made himself in his own shed on a Sunday. This video covers 25 frontier and pioneer knives built out of what the country left laying around: worn-out files, busted wagon springs, broken mill saw blades, horseshoe rasps, plow points, cracked axe heads, and army surplus nobody else wanted. Some of these broke the law back then. Some of them are against the law right now, in your state, today. All of them worked. From the file knife and the leaf spring blade to cut-down bayonets, cavalry sabers turned into corn knives, the Green River trade knife, the crooked knife, the patch knife, the skinner, the dirk, the Arkansas toothpick, the Bowie that started the whole panic, and the worn-down butcher knife that closes out the list, this is how a family got its cutlery when the store was two hundred miles away and nobody was sending them anything. You will also learn the truth about barrel hoop iron and railroad spike knives, the two biggest myths in the whole business, and why frontier knifemaking was never about the forging at all. It was about the sorting. Tell me down in the comments which one surprised you most, and whether there is a homemade knife still in a drawer at your people's house, and what it was made out of. #FrontierKnives #Homesteading #AmericanHistory