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Were Archery Contests Held Out West?

by | Dec 15, 2017 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

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Were archery contests held out West? Jennifer Malewski Kansas City, Missouri Archery was practiced almost entirely by American Indians in the frontier West. Modern archery organizations date to post-Civil War, when ex-Confederate soldiers Maurice and Will Thompson—who weren’t allowed to own firearms—used bows and arrows to hunt. They also started some local archery clubs. In 1878, Maurice wrote a book, The Witchery of Archery, that inspired the startups of several more archery clubs,


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