The Coalition of Historical Trekkers
Purpose and Ideals

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We, the Coalition of Historical Trekkers, are living historians, dedicated to the preservation and study of the lives and culture of all pre-1860 frontier people in America.

We see ourselves as experimental archaeologists, involved in one or more eras of the historical time frame from 1600 to the year 1860. As the purpose of an archaeologist is to establish facts about a historical people or time period, our purpose is to research the lifeways of the pre-1860 frontier people who lived in, fought for, and founded this country. Our research is accompanied by experimentation in historical situations, using the foods, tools, clothing, weapons, and methods authentic to those used by the early frontier people here in America.

We believe the best way to preserve history is to share it by communicating our research and experimentation through educational programs and publications dedicated to pre-1860 America.

We pledge to keep alive the awareness of those men and women who made it possible for us, and generations to come, to live here in the land of the free-America.