Chickasaw author Eric Smith is a master bowyer who has taught the ancient craft of bow making to Native American you and others across the country. His creations have also appeared in Hollywood movies, including THE REVENANT, and grace museums and collections in more than twenty-six countries. He makes his home in Oklahoma.
Smith's work is the first comprehensive written record documenting 200 years of history and making of the bows used by the Great Plains tribes. -- Kent Smith Office for the Advancement of American Indians in Medicine and Science, Oklahoma State University . . . the author has succeeded in packaging within the covers of this book, the benefit of thirty years' experience working with master tribal bowyers, conducting historical research,as well as hands on trial and error experimentation . . . -- Towana Spivey curator, historian, archaeologist