Get a flintlock or rifle musket, dress like Dan’l Boone or NB Forrest, get into reenacting.
If you attend an event you’ll quickly learn that ever’body back then were elderly
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
