A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks", McElhattan, Pa.
By Henry W. Shoemaker and H. Beam Piper
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A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks", McElhattan, Pa. - Henry W. Shoemaker
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Title: A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at Restless Oaks
Author: Henry W. Shoemaker
Release Date: January 25, 2007 [EBook #20442]
Language: English
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A CATALOGUE of
EARLY PENNSYLVANIA
and other
FIREARMS and EDGED
WEAPONS
at
RESTLESS OAKS
McELHATTAN, PA.
Collected by
HENRY W. SHOEMAKER
Lieut. Col., Res., U. S. A.
Compiled by
H. BEAM PIPER, of Altoona, Pa.
THE LAST OF THE PENNSYLVANIA WAYSIDE GUNSMITHS
BUSLER BROTHERS, CLINTON COUNTY, PA.
(Frontispiece)
Aerataeque Micant Peltae, Micat Aereus Ensis.
—Virgil, Aen. VIII, 743
DEDICATED TO THE PENNSYLVANIA FOLK-LORE SOCIETY,
BY THE COMPILER
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
For years this writer's aim was to visualize the armed Pennsylvanian of earlier days; how he went forth to fight his Indian foe, to slay the bison, moose, elk and smaller game, and on his expeditions to the fields of love: where his firearms and edged weapons originated. To create the living man his arms must be secured, and gradually the present collection was assembled. And he lived again, dark, grim, bearded, the spirit of lofty pines and hemlocks among which he spent his days, always plotting to kill something. Many of the arms, if they could speak, what tales of war, the chase, and love adventure they could tell! The Pennsylvania woodsman was filled with the romance of slaughter, a heritage of mingled Continental origins, Huguenot, Spanish, Portuguese, Swiss, Waldensian, Levantine, with the strains of Ulster Scot, Alsatian, Palatine, Hollander and Moravian, cooling cross currents in his veins. No wonder that the women of this blended race were the most darkly beautiful in the world, and a group of the curious edged weapons they carried to destroy men who annoyed them might well be the subject of another separate collection. But the arms stacked in silent panoply, or the daggers, dirks and powder flasks, would not suffice to give the collection the answer to the questions it involved. Along with a group of daring Alpinists to Restless Oaks
came H. Beam Piper, of Altoona, Pa., a modern master-of-arms, who patiently set to work to describe the collection from its oldest to its newest examples. As the results of his intelligent energy and research the following catalogue has been prepared which gives us the skeleton figure of the armed Pennsylvania mountain man, from the frontier days until later and more prosaic times ensued. While many of the arms listed are in imperfect condition and some of the more important ones