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The Sweet Ancient Weapons and the American Rifle
Emerson Hough praises the American rifle as a historic tool that forged the West. The article tracks Pennsylvania gun makers from Lancaster to Harpers Ferry and Kentucky frontier states, highlighting Decherd, Gouldher, Shell, Mills, and Shells’s Hawken and Sharps rifles. It notes famous users like Kit Carson, Morgan’s Riflemen, and General Frazer, with tales of Sharps buffalo guns and the three calibers 40, 44, and .50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Emerson Hough
America
Americs
Arms of Nations
New Orleans
Hough
Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Boston
Morgan
Daniel Boone
Kentucky
Newcastle
Philadelphia
J. Stogdell Stokes
Sawyer
Lancaster
Jacob Decherd
Dechert
Deschord
Dickert
Bigs
Deckard
Enston
John Golcher
Gouldher
George Washington
Goldier
Timothy Murphy
Morgan's
Rifle Corps
Frazer
Saratoga
Concord
Decherd
Ralnbecks
Harrodsburg
Tennessee
Old Hickory
Pakenham
John Shell
Liverpool
Pay
Greasy Creek
Beyong
Mississippi
West
Hawkins
Haowkeng
Kit Carson
Jim Bridger
Jim Baker
Henry Hawkins
Hawken
Harpers Ferry
St. Louis
Great West
Jaco
Sarine Mawhken
Henry Tawking
Missouri
Rockies
Sicily
S. Hawlen
Tiewe
Ain
Missouri Historical Society
Jules E. Guinotte
Probate Court
Kansas City
Sharps
Sharps and
Navy
Christian Sharps
John Brown
Brown
Inter Sharps
Billy Dixon
Adobe Walls
Texas Cantandie
Dixon
Ns Withow
Olive KK
Senate
Theodore