Article ID: CBB038679291

The Kentucky Rifle (Winter 2009)

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When German gunsmiths adapted Old World gun technology to meet New World conditions, they created the frontier-changing Kentucky rifle.

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Authors & Contributors
Brian Godwin
David S. Weaver
Jones, Karen R.
David Williams
Macola, Giacomo
Pamela Haag
Journals
Arms and Armour Society Journal
Vulcan
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Business History Review
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Publishers
Kentucky Rifle Foundation
University Press of Colorado
University of Nebraska Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Johns Hopkins University Press
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Concepts
Firearms
Gunsmiths
Military technology
Technology and culture
Technology and war; technology and the military
Manufacturing
People
Colt, Samuel
Berdan, Hiram
James W. Ripley
Henry Nock
Honoré Blanc
Alexander B. Dyer
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
England
Arabian peninsula
Western states (U.S.)
Indian Ocean
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
Institutions
American Philosophical Society
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