I'm sorry the oft qouted Indians didn't have wheels just aint true. Aztec and inca and pre inca toys have been found with wheels to pull them around. Without a traction animal wheels become unimportant. Wheels in fact were not invented by civalazation but by the asian horse tribes. It got introduced to the mesopotamians,who like the aztecs didn't have an early traction animal.
Wocs after all are just a style of frying pan. It does use heat well but fuel sorces wasn't important to early americans.
When I first started ml I was a teenager with a morowy rifle. I was told at the gun store i bought it how to use a adjustable tc powder measure grese a patch with crisco and push the balldown. Second or third time I shot i decided to make a wumper.I made it from a piece of dowel and a flat round top. 2years later I found out there was clubs of ml shooters and I got to my first shoot. On the way I thought all the guys there would be impressed by my wumper. Imangen my surprise. No one had ever told me about shrt starters, Inever saw it in a book or read it in a magizine, It just seemed a natural thing to do to make it easier to load. I must be your basic girly man, but it wasn't rocket science. No super skill,no light bulb over my head. Just a dumb kid with a coping saw. Must have been smarter the Boone,Kenton and Washington. "My aint I some"