Huntingdon County Pennsylvania Arms Makers

Author : James Whisker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724529053
Total Pages : 94 pages
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Download or read book Huntingdon County Pennsylvania Arms Makers written by James Whisker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gun making in rural Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries and those who engaged in the arms making trade.

Author : James B. Whisker
Publisher : Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms Makers of Pennsylvania written by James B. Whisker and published by Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey, with hundreds of illustrations, of the arms making industry in Pennsylvania from its beginnings until about 1900. it focuses on the Pennsylvania long (Kentucky) rifle, and identifies the primary schools of gun making and major technological developments. Illustrated.

Author : Stacy B. C. Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms Makers of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania written by Stacy B. C. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Biser Whisker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781547205240
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gunsmiths of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania written by James Biser Whisker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listing of those who made and/or repaired firearms in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, from c. 1790 until 1900. Photographs of many cottage industry made firearms.

Author : James B. Whisker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms Makers of York County written by James B. Whisker and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Keith Hite
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ISBN 13 : 9781685249069
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Perry County Gunmakers & Their Guns written by R. Keith Hite and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were scores of gunmakers throughout Pennsylvania during the late 1700's and through the mid 1800's. While there were many gunmakers from Perry County, little was known about these makers until 1969 when Roy Chandler and Don Mitchell published a limited-edition work - 300 copies - on Perry County Gunmakers. In doing so, the Chandler and Mitchell book became the definitive resource on an important and integral part of Perry County's development. During the final years of his life, Roy Chandler exhorted the author to update his 1969 work and further unwrap the history of these frontier manufacturers.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms Makers of Western Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Biser Whisker, Sr.
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548954079
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book Arms Makers of Western Pennsylvania written by James Biser Whisker, Sr. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical listing of those who made and re[aired arms of various sorts, but especially rifles and pistols, c. 1790-1900.

Author : James B. Whisker
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945636144
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms Makers of Colonial Amer written by James B. Whisker and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arms Makers of Colonial America by James B. Whisker is a comprehensively documented historical survey of the broad spectrum of arms makers in America who were active before 1783. Complemented by a lengthy introduction and nearly 200 illustrations, this extensive listing was derived from original source materials, including the archives and public and state papers of the thirteen original colonies, tax records, Revolutionary War pensions, deeds, wills and estates, and the American Archives. With a full citation of the source, each biographical entry presents the type of arms production the individual was engaged in, the time period, and the location. The professions represented are many and varied: gunsmiths and gunstockers, armorers, gun barrel makers, iron and steel manufacturers, brass founders, pike and other edged weapon makers and cutlers, accoutrements makers, gunpowder makers, and gunlock makers and locksmiths. In each of the earliest settlements in America there was a gunsmith who mended the arms of his neighbors and sharpened their knives and taught them how to use these tools on which they depended for food and protection. John Dandy of Maryland, ca. 1635, is the first person who can be identified as a gunsmith who made guns - lock, stock, and barrel. Most of the earliest gunsmiths were armorers, that is, they repaired, cleaned, and maintained arms on government contract. In early New England each militiaman provided his own gun or the colonial administration provided one for him and charged him for it. The maintenance of the gun was the responsibility of the government, and thus it has been possible to identify many of the early armorers and gunsmiths through colonial records of their services. Militia service was neglected, however, during the early to mid eighteenth century, and when war came, public arms were generally in a deplorable state. During the French and Indian War many gunsmiths were impressed into service as armorers to restore the neglected arms. This exercise proved to be a grand rehearsal for arms production taken on during the Revolution. An English observer wrote that the Americans would have little difficulty arming themselves if war came between the mother country and her colonies because there were more than sufficient gunmakers and allied tradesmen to provide 100,000 guns a year. Pennsylvania was the center of the arms making trade. The home rifle, commonly called the Pennsylvania-Kentucky Rifle, an American modification of the German hunting rifle, had been developed in or near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the second quarter of the eighteenth century. It was deadly accurate and gave the skilled marksmen of the backwoods a superior sniper weapon. The craftsmen of Lancaster, Philadelphia, and other cities stopped making their civilian arms and concentrated on making militia muskets in the early years of the war for independence. By 1780, except on the frontier, the supply of imported and domestic militia arms exceeded demand, and the tradesmen returned to rifle making. The golden age of classic long rifle making followed.

Author : Robert Edward Gardner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Small Arms Makers written by Robert Edward Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers American and foreign makers, with illus. showing European marks.