Show early use ot osage orange in the early days farmers turned 10 0 osage orange for wood to make bellowes tel lowes or rims of wagon wheels pioneer wives used to make a yellow dye from the wood of the tie tree while a tanning mixture cai c n ie be made from the bark indians use used d the osage a as s wood for their bows rhe tree was called bois darc wood of the bow by the french in the south so valuable was an osage bow that sometimes a horse and a blanket represented the price of a good one of excellent gram and finish |