By John Bivins, Jr.

Longrifles of North Carolina, part of the George Shumway Publisher Longrifle Series, is a scholarly study of the art and evolution of the rifle, immigration and trade movements, the Committee of Safety gunsmiths, the characteristics of the North Carolina rifle, and gunsmithing schools of the Piedmont and western North Carolina.

Reprinted in 2006, Hardcover, 255 illustrations, 240 pages.
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