The Lost Ways 2 Review (2026): Worth It?

You get a 150-page pioneer skills guide plus three bonus PDFs for $33: food preservation, shelter, fire, water, and herbal remedies, organized in one place. Refund: 60 days, ClickBank-honored.

What The Lost Ways 2 is, in one sentence.

A 150-page digital guide to pioneer survival skills. It covers food preservation, shelter, fire, water, and herbal medicine, plus three bonus PDFs, for $33.

The book is a calm, practical collection of old methods. It teaches you how to smoke meat, build a root cellar, make acorn flour, and more. You are paying for clear organization and convenience, with everything gathered in one place.

Is The Lost Ways 2 worth it?

Yes. The Lost Ways 2 is a solid $33 pioneer skills sampler, and you have 60 days to read it and decide.

It earns its price by putting a wide range of old survival skills in one organized library. The food preservation chapters alone are worth a read. If you want a broad starting point for pioneer skills, this delivers real value at a low one-time cost.

What you actually get

Here is what you get after the $33 purchase:

• The main guide. Around 150 pages, formatted for screen reading. Chapters cover smoking and curing meat, building a root cellar, making acorn flour, constructing simple shelters, starting fires with primitive methods, collecting and purifying water, and basic herbal remedies. Some chapters have step-by-step photos; others are text-heavy with diagrams.
• Bonus 1: 19th-century recipes and remedies. A collection of old recipes (hardtack, pemmican, switchel) and folk remedies. Mostly pulled from public domain cookbooks and herbal guides. Useful if you don’t want to hunt them down yourself.
• Bonus 2: Pioneer shelter blueprints. Simplified diagrams of lean-tos, wickiups, and log cabins. The dimensions and materials lists are helpful; the building instructions assume you have basic carpentry skills and access to woodland.
• Bonus 3: ‘Lost’ Native American skills. A short PDF covering bow-making, hide tanning, and foraging. The information is generalized — you won’t learn to make a bow from this alone, but you’ll get an overview.
• Quick-start checklist: A 30-day challenge to try one skill per day. This is the most practical piece: it forces you to actually do something instead of just reading.

What it costs

The book is $33 one-time at checkout. No recurring billing showed at the cart on the date above. After checkout you may see two optional add-ons: a deluxe bundle at $27 and a video library at $19. Both are easy to skip. You can buy just the $33 guide.

Refund: 60 days, ClickBank-honored.

What the sales page leaves out

The sales page is built to sell, not to teach.

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The pitch leans on phrases like “lost secrets your great-grandparents knew.” Most of these skills are documented in books you can borrow from a library. They are old, not lost. So treat the book as a clear, organized guide to proven old methods, not a vault of hidden knowledge.

The pitch also uses collapse and urgency to set the mood. The actual book never mentions collapse. It reads like a calm how-to manual for pioneer skills, with no doomsday timeline. That is a good thing: you get steady instruction you can use any time.

Who The Lost Ways 2 is best for

• Best for: survival-curious beginners who want a broad sampler of pioneer skills in one organized library.
• Skip if: you already own the first Lost Ways or a structured pioneer-skills course, since the overlap is high.

The Foxfire books cover much of the same ground and are often free at libraries. The Lost Ways 2 wins on convenience by organizing the key skills and adding a quick-start checklist. Worth it if you value having everything in one place.

The honest read

The Lost Ways 2 is strong on organization and convenience. The food preservation chapters help if you have never cured bacon or made sauerkraut. The shelter blueprints are solid starting points. The herbal medicine section is basic but safe.

Much of it draws on public domain material you could track down yourself in the Foxfire books or old USDA pamphlets. The value here is having it gathered, organized, and paired with a 30-day challenge that gets you doing instead of just reading.

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If you will actually try smoking meat or building a simple shelter, the checklist alone helps justify the price. For a curious beginner who wants one broad reference, $33 buys a useful pioneer skills library.

— Cal Reiner