Certainly skinning knives rated as among the most important tools in the frontiersman’s kit, yet little information is available to the enthusiast about these austere blades. M.H. Cole, a pioneer in the field of knife collecting and the author of four volumes of U.S. military knives, has compiled what is destined to become a standard reference work on these hunter’s utility knives. Don’t think this a treatise on the skinning knife’s history, because this tome is encyclopedic, using cl


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