It's my favorite time period too Lin and The Last of the Mohicans is one of my favorite films.
That's neat that you know Dan Winkler who made the knives and hawks for the movie. I knew Mark Baker years ago before he became famous, he was an adviser in the movie and taught Daniel Day Lewis (Hawkeye) how to load his muzzleloader on the run.
As it says on the bottom of my post,
"We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past" History inspires us, it does me anyway, since my days as a child when my Mother would read to me every night at bedtime, stories of Cowboys, Indians, Pioneers and Robin Hood. It kindled a fire in me to learn more of our history and that fire has burned brightly for more than 70 years.