Able's Bow

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