Traditional Walking Sticks

TRADITIONAL WALKING STICKS

I Ask To Be No Man, Other Than The Man I Am

This is the type of walking stick most people have in mind when they think of a walking stick or hiking staff. Great grand mother Booth often walked from her house nearly a mile on the trail in the woods to the mailbox and she always used walking stick, because she never knew what type of varmint she would run onto in the woods. She used the walking for both support and protection.

The sticks are cut during the coldest days of winter and allowed to dry in the barn loft for nearly two years, before being made into Traditional Walking Sticks. Each walking stick or cane can be sized to fit each person's needs. If you purchase a Traditional Walking Stick or cane, add a couple grizzly bear claws onto the leather strap and you will have a walking stick or cane like no one else. because no two are the same.

Actual walking sticks may vary in color and wood type from the sticks shown in the picture below.

The legendary King Tut of Egypt had more than 100 staffs, or walking sticks in his tomb, undoubtedly to assist and protect him in the afterlife.

An interesting thing about walking sticks is that in the 1700s in England, a law was passed that required any man who was carrying a walking stick to have a license to do so.

Another interesting thing about walking sticks is that in the 1700s in England, a law was passed that required any man who was carrying a walking stick to have a license to do so

Traditional Kentucky Walking Sticks