# Able's Bow *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 14 Nov 2009* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Ian Bratt *14 Nov 2009, 22:43* I recently stumbled across this info while reading a bio of Meriwether Lewis. When Lewis was wintering in St Louis, the first shipment of natural history specimens he sent to president Jefferson contained a sample of the Osage Orange tree. Regarding the Osage Orange, Lewis wrote "So much do the savages esteem the wood of this tree for the purpose of making their bows, that they travel many hundred miles in quest of it". -Insula ---