KRA Bulletin | VOLUME 41 | NUMBER 1 | FALL 2014

KRA’s Fall 2014 issue of the Kentucky Rifle Association Bulletin presents a documented historical account of Ann Hupp and the defense of the Miller Block House during a Shawnee attack on the western Pennsylvania frontier in 1782. The lead article examines a Lancaster made longrifle attributed to gunsmith Joel Ferree, believed by many researchers to have been used during the siege.

Drawing on period records, family histories, and physical analysis of the rifle itself, the Bulletin distinguishes documented events from later folklore and highlights the role of women on the Revolutionary era frontier. Additional articles explore early American transition firearms, including a rare Revolutionary era rifle later converted to musket and fowler configurations, reinforcing the Bulletin’s focus on primary research and historical context.

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KRA Bulletin | VOLUME 40 | NUMBER 3 | SPRING 2014

Rooted in the complex history of the Cumberland frontier, this Spring 2014 Bulletin examines the riflemen and gunmakers whose lives were shaped by a region long treated as a peripheral borderland. Central to the study is the work of gunsmith Jacob Young, explored through rifles made for prominent figures such as William Waid Woodfork, William Whitley, and Gasper Mansker.

Drawing from close analysis of surviving rifles, powder horns, engraved ornamentation, and period documentation, the Bulletin situates Cumberland gunmaking within its broader cultural, geographic, and political context during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In doing so, the research challenges rigid regional classifications and presents the Cumberland as a distinct frontier world whose makers and riflemen played an essential role in the evolution of the American longrifle.

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