About the Author

Gerry Barker blends historical research with living history experiments and real life adventures. After a career in the U. S. Army which included sixteen years in Special Forces assignments in the United States, Europe and Asia, he threw himself into the field of history pursuing academic degrees at the University of Wisconsin and working as both volunteer and employee at museums. He began an interest in living history during an assignment in Germany and this became his passion. His present research is into the skills of living on the Eastern Colonial frontier in Tennessee & Kentucky