Mike Brooks said:
I'd like to add.....before you folks fall into believing all the hype gun sellers will print to sell their guns, buy some books and arm yourself with knowledge. :thumbsup: The information is out there and easy to find.
Dewitt Bailey's book is an excellent source on the subject. Cost about $40.
Here is a list of books by De Witt Bailey in my library and which I use frequently:
1."British Military Longarms,1715-1815" {1971}
2."'British Military Longarms 1815-1865"{1972}
These two books are a little dated but are still useful.
3."Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783"{1997}
4."British Board of Ordnance Small Arms contractors 1689-1840" {1999}
This source which I previously cited covers trade and Indian gift guns. It is good to remember that the same makers furnishing trade and Indian gift guns were also selling guns to merchants and traders in America for open sale to anyone who could afford them and that such sales continued well after the frontier had moved west.As was the case in Pennsylvania many of these sales were to Indian as well as White market hunters, Earl Lanning citing Wes White.These sales included rifles as well as fowlers.
5."British Military Flintlock Rifles 1740-1840" {2002}
Another source I have used is "Proceedings of the 1984 Trade Gun Conference Part II,selected Papers which contains some very pertinent information especially the English Pattern trade rifles made both in England and later in America by Henry Leman,J.Henry and others.This volume is part of a two volume set {part I is "Dutch and Other Flintlocks From Seventeenth Century Iroquois Sites by Jan Puype" published by the Rochester Museum and Science Center and I believe is still available there at a reasonable price.I hope this helps.
Tom Patton
