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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A must have book for the longrifle enthusiast.,
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This review is from: The Kentucky Rifle (Hardcover)
Excellent photographic representations set this book apart from the rest that one may find on this subject. It is the book for those who need well lit color photogrphs of pre-revolutionary colonial guns,smothbore and rifled,to the extravagantly embellished rifles of the Golden Age and mid-percussion eras.The first example is the Jonathan Schreit rifle of 1761 and continues school by school to the gunsmiths of 1850 to 1870 period who built Kentucky/Pennsylvania style rifles strictly as presentation pieces. The text is rather sparse,giving brief histories of the respective schools invovled in the gunbuilding circles of early America. However, the is text is more concerned with descibing the elements of construction and architecture which have since elevated the longrifle to a distinctly original American art form. At base, it is an art book valuable to anyone interested in American art. The book is not the extensive historical treatise that one may find in the books by Dillin, Kindig or Buchele;but does give accurate specifications of each gun illustrated, such as caliber, barrel length and dates of manufacture and makers. -SAR-
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The Kentucky Rifle by Merrill Lindsay (Hardcover - 1972)
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