Chuck Burrows and his wife Linda are the owners and makers of Wild Rose Trading Company. Our goal is to produce the finest in handcrafted leather goods, frontier knives, and hawks which are based on the traditional designs of the Old west. Our frontier trappings are historically correct and of museum replica quality. Frontier items we make include: various styles of Mountain Man and Plains Indians trappings, knives, sheaths, hawks and war clubs, frontier scout gear and accoutrements, and the full range of Old West cowboy gear.

Chuck fell in love with Frontier America from the time he saw Davy Crockett on TV back in the 1950's. When his family moved west in the mid 1960s, he got a taste of the real old time West, eventually working as both a cowboy and a packer.

In 1971, he moved to the Pacific Northwest, where he met a group of fellow buckskinners which further whetted his interest in the gear and history or the Western Fur Trade and the Plains Indian tribes. His life long love and study of the American Frontier era continues to this day.

Chuck has been working and studying leather craft and knife making for over forty years. His study of these two crafts includes the methods and materials from ancient times to the current era. Over the years he has studied with many old time makers and made just about everything out of leather possible from watch bands to saddles, but his first love is knives and their sheaths. He has been lucky to make sheaths for all kinds and makes of knives, including originals and some of the best of the modern makers.

Wild Rose's hand crafted leather gear, beadwork, and knives are made from the highest quality materials available. Each item is completely hand made one at a time in our shop by Chuck and Linda, using the traditional methods of the 18th/19th century. Our leather goods are cut out with a knife (not clicker stamped), are hand decorated (stamped, carved, beaded), then sewn with fine Irish linen thread to produce the best stitch possible. In the case of Native American and Mtn Man gear we often sew with real sinew. All goods are then finished with our aging process that gives our gear that authentic, vintage look.

For our knifemaking we follow the tenets of the Neo-Tribal Metalsmiths - using the best of the old and the new, although like our leather work we mainly use the methods and materials of the 18th and 19th century. Besides making our own sole authorship knives, etc. we work with a select few other knife/blademakers, most who work in the frontier style. For over a year now we have collaborated closely with Gib Guignard of CactusForge. Our collaboration work which includes knives and sheaths, warclubs, and tomahawks is offered under the name of CactusRose.

All of our goods, whether leather, knives, hawks, war clubs, or beadwork, are given a patina of age - "used but well
cared for."

Our work has been featured in the following magazines:
" Guns of the Old West" and "Gunworld" by Gary Paul Johnston
"Shooting Times" by Mike Venturino
"American Handgunner" and "Shoot!Magazine" by JohnTaffin.
We are also featured by John Taffin in his book: "Action Shooting Cowboy Style"