At Fort Pitt Museum, 'The American Frontier Rifleman' exhibit hits bull's-eye in timing
Rifle exhibit will coincide with ... the NRA convention!
Monday, April 25, 2011
By Vivian Nereim, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Standing amid 18th-century rifles, Alan Gutchess seemed perfectly at home.
Director of the Fort Pitt Museum, Mr. Gutchess can build reproductions of antique wooden rifles by hand. He once worked at the gunsmith's shop in colonial Williamsburg. The history of the skilled rifleman -- a romanticized figure who traversed America from the revolutionary war through the 1820s -- is a "lifelong fascination" of his, he said.
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Rifle exhibit will coincide with ... the NRA convention!
Monday, April 25, 2011
By Vivian Nereim, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Standing amid 18th-century rifles, Alan Gutchess seemed perfectly at home.
Director of the Fort Pitt Museum, Mr. Gutchess can build reproductions of antique wooden rifles by hand. He once worked at the gunsmith's shop in colonial Williamsburg. The history of the skilled rifleman -- a romanticized figure who traversed America from the revolutionary war through the 1820s -- is a "lifelong fascination" of his, he said.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11115/1141781-53-0.stm?cmpid=MOSTEMAILEDBOX#ixzz1KvxxBlO4