American Long Rifle Association

Recommended Reading List

Below are useful sources of information. Of course, this is not a complete list, and you are strongly encouraged to find new ones (and update the list!) As always, each source must be checked for location and time period to ensure it applies to any particular persona, and no source is perfect.

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Archeological

• Hume, Ivor Noel, A Guide to Artifacts of Colonal America, Vintage Books, Random House, New York, NY 1969
  
  
• Grimm, Jacob L., Archaeological Investigation of Fort Ligonier, 1960-1965, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA 1970
  
  
• Neumann, George C., and Kravic, Frank J., Collector's Illistrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, Rebel Publishing, Texarkana, TX 1975
  
  
• Neumann, George C., Early American Antique Country Furnishings, L-W Book Sales, Gas City, IN 1984
  
  
• Calver, William & Bolton, Reginald, History Written With Pick and Shovel, New York Historical Society, New York, NY 1950
  
  
• Starbuck, David R., The Great Warpath; British Military Sites from Albany to Crown Point, University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 1999
  
  
• Starbuck, David R., The Great Warpath; British Military Sites from Albany to Crown...., University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 1999

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Primary Sources

• Dorson, Richard M., American Rebels - Narratives of the Patriots, Pantheon Books, Inc., New York, NY 1953
  
  
• de Finiels, Nicholas, An Account of Upper Louisiana 1803, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO 1989
  
  
• Smith, James, An Account of the Remarkable Occurances in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith, 1755-1759, (Reprint by) Robert Clarke and Co., Cincinnati, OH 1870
  
  
• Pickering, Timothy, An East Plan of Discipline for a Militia, 2nd Ed. Boston 1776, Reprint by King's Arms Press
  
  
• Williams, Ed. G. (ed.), Bouquet's March to the Ohio, The Forbes Road, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA 1975
  
  
• Egerton, Judy, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867, The Tate Gallery, London 1978
  
  
• Beaty, Charles, Charles Beaty's Journal 1762-1769, LAC 1971
  
  
• Darlington, William M. (Ed), Christopher Gist's Journals, J. R. Weldin and Co., Pittsburgh PA 1893
  
  
• Prime, Alfred Coxe, Colonial Craftsmen of Pennsylvania, Penna. Museum of Industral Art, Philadelphia, PA 1925
  
  
• McClure, David, Diary of David McClure 1748-1820, Knickerbocker Press, New York, NY 1899
  
  
• Shesgreen, Sean (ed.), Engravings By Hogarth, Dover Publications, New York, NY 1973
  
  
• Albion, Robert G. (ed.), Fithians Journal, 1775-1776, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1934
  
  
• Burgoyne, Bruce E. (Translator), Grorg Pausch's Journal and Reports of the Campaign in America, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie MD 1996
  
  
• Heckewelder, Rev. John, History, Manners, and Customs of The Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighboring States, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1876 (Reprint Heritage Books, Bowie, MD 1990)
  
  
• Heckewelder, Rev. John, History, Manners, and Customs of The Indian Nations Who One Inhabited,
  
  
• Mason, Frances Norton (ed.), John Norton and Sons, Merchants of London and Virginia 1750-1795, Augustus M. Kelley, Nwe York, NY 1968
  
  
• Hearne, Samuel and Turnor, Philip, Journals of Samuel Hearne and Philip Turnor Between the Years 1774-1778, Greenwood Press, New York, NY 1968
  
  
• Cook, Frederick (Ed.), Journals of the Military Expedition of Major Genaral John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779, Knapp, Peck and Thomson, Auburn, NY 1887 (Reprint: Heritage Books, Bowie, MD 2000)
  
  
• St. John de Crevecouer, Hector J., Letters From An American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth Century America, Penguin Books, New York, NY 1981
  
  
• Pouchot, Pierre (Dunnigan, Brian Leigh ed.), Memoirs of the Late War in North America Between France and England, 1754-1760, Old Fort Niagara Publications 1994
  
  
• Dwight, Sereno Edwards (Ed.), Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd; Missionary to the Indians, S. Converse, New Haven, CN 1822
  
  
• Roberts, Kenneth & Anna (eds.), Moreau de St. Merys American Journey, 1793-98, Country Life Press, Garden City, NJ 1947
  
  
• Dickenson, Samuel (ed.), New Travels in North America by Jean-Bernard Bossu 1770-1771, Northwestern State University Press, Natchitoches, LA 1982
  
  
• McClure, David, Ohio Country Missionary, The Diary of David McClure 1748-1820, Rettig's Frontier Ohio, Waterville, OH 1996 (First printing 1899)
  
  
• Kalm, Peter, Peter Kalm's Travels in North America; The English Version of 1770, Dover Publications, New York, NY 1987
  
  
• Martin, Joseph Plumb (Scheer, George ed.), Private Yankee Doodle, Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, MA 1954
  
  
• Dow, George Francis, The Arts and Crafts in New England, 1704-1775, Da Capo Press, New York, NY 1967
  
  
• Gottesman, Rita S., The Arts and Crafts in New York, 1726-1776, Da Capo Press, New York, NY 1970
  
  
• Prime, Alfred Coxe, The Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland, and South Carolina Part 1, 1721-1785, Da Capo Press, New York, NY 1969
  
  
• Prime, Alfred Coxe, The Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland, and South Carolina, Part 2, 1786-1800, The Walpole Society, New York, NY 1969
  
  
• Cresswell, Nicholas, The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777, The Dial Press, New York, NY 1924
  
  
• Flick, Alexander C. (ed.), The Papers of Sir William Johnson. Vol 4, University of the State of New York, Albany, NY 1925
  
  
• Pittman, Captain Phillip, The Present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi, University of Florida Press, Gainesville, FL 1973
  
  
• Dann, John C. (ed.), The Revolution Remembered, Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL 1980
  
  
• Doddridge, Joseph, The Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1763-1783, Heritage Books, Inc. Bowie MD 1988
  
  
• South Carolina Historical Society, The Shaftesbury Papers, Tempus Publishing Co., Charleston, SC
  
  
• Commanger, Henry Steele and Morris, Richard B. (eds), The Spirite of Seventy Six, The Story of the American Revolution, As Told By Participants, Da Capo Press, New York, NY 1995
  
  
• Long, J, Voyages and Travels of an Indain Interpreter and Trader, Johnson Reprint Co., New York, NY

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Secondary Sources

• Parkman, Francis, A Half Century of Conflict, Vol. 1 and 2, Little, Brown, and Co. Boston, MA 1922
  
  
• Anderson, Fred, A Peoples Army, Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years War, University of North Carolinia Press, Chapel Hill, NC 1984
  
  
• Whisker, James B., Arms Makers of Colonial America, Associated University Press, Cranbury, NJ 1992
  
  
• Whisker, James B., Arms Makers of Pennsylvania, Associated University Presses, Inc., Cranbury, NJ 1990
  
  
• Whisker, James B., Arms Makers of Western Pennsylvania, Old Bedford Village Press, Bedford, PA 1994
  
  
• Olmstead, Earl P., Blackcoats among the Delaware, Kent State University Press, Kent, OH 1991
  
  
• Fuller, J. F. C., British Light Infantry in the Eighteenth Century, Hutchinson and Co., London
  
  
• Perry, Evan, Collecting Antique Metalware, Doubleday and Co., Garden City, NY
  
  
• Hamilton, T. M., Colonial Frontier Guns, Pioneer Press, Union City, TN 1987
  
  
• English, William H., Conquest of the Country Northwest of the Ohio River, 1778-1783, 2 Vols., Heritage Books, Bowie, MD 1991
  
  
• Callahan, North, Daniel Morgan, Ranger of the Revolution, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, NY 1961
  
  
• Hubert, Archer Butler & Schwarze, William Nathanial (Eds.), David Zeisberger's History of the North American Indians, Wennawoods Publishing Lewisburg, PA 1999 (First printing 1910)
  
  
• Baumgarten, Linda, Eighteenth Century Clothing at Williamsburg, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg VA 1986
  
  
• George, J. N., English Guns and Rifles Small-arms, Technical Pub. Co., Plantersville, SC 1947
  
  
• Dow, George Francis, Everyday Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Dover Books, New York, NY, 1988
  
  
• Brown, M. L., Firearms in Colonial America, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC 1980
  
  
• Lobdell, Jared C. (Ed.), Further Materials on Lewis Wetzel and the Upper Ohio Frontier, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, MD 1994
  
  
• Shumway, George, George Schreyer, Sr. and Jr., Gunmakers of Hannover, York County, Pennsylvania, George Shumway Publishing, York, PA 1990
  
  
• Whisker, James B., Gunsmiths of York County, Old Bedford Village Press, Bedford, PA 1995
  
  
• Howard, Bryan P., Had On Took With Him, Runnaway Indentured Servant Clothing in Virginia, 1774-1778, (Doctoral Disseration) Texas AandM, 1996
  
  
• Trigger, Bruce G., Handbook of North American Indians, Northeast, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 1978
  
  
• Trumbull, James Russell, History of Northampton, Massachusetts from 1654, Vol. 12, Northampton, MA 1902
  
  
• Lobdell, Jared C. (ed.), Indian Warfare in Wastern Pennsylvania and North West Virginia at the Time of the American Revolution, Heritage Books, Bowie, MD 1992
  
  
• Lobdell, Jared C., Indian Warfare in Western Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia at the Time of the American Revolution, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie MD 1992
  
  
• Johnson, Cathy, Living History Drawing on the Past, Graphics/Fine Arts Press, Excelsior Springs, MO 1994
  
  
• Hatt, Gumung, Moccasins and their Relation to Artic Footwear (Memoirs of the American Anthropogical Assoc., Vol. III), Kraus Reprint Corp. New York, NY 1964
  
  
• Farris, John T. (ed), On the Trail of Pioneers, George H. Doran C., New York, NY 1920
  
  
• Shumway, George, Pennsylvania Longrifles of Note (3rd Ed.), George Shumway Publisher, York, PA 1993
  
  
• Hayes, Charles F. (Gen Ed.), Proceedings of the 1984 Trade Gun Conference, Part II, Selected Papers, Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, NY 1985
  
  
• Lobdell, Jared C. (Ed.), Recollections of Lewis Bonnett, Jr. (1778-1850), Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie MD 1991
  
  
• Ruckman, Joseph, Recreating the American Longhunter: 1740-1790, Graphics/Fine Arts Press, Excelsior Springs, MO 2000
  
  
• Shumway, George, Rifles of Colonial America (Vol. I and II) (2nd Ed.), George Shumway Publisher, York, PA 2002
  
  
• Gehret, Ellen J., Rural Pennsylvania Clothing, George Shumway Publisher, York, PA 1976
  
  
• Klinger, Robert L. and Wilder, Richard A. W., Sketchbook '76, Pioneer Press, Union City, NJ 1967
  
  
• Jordan, Terry and Kaups, M., The American Backwoods Frontier, An Ethnic and Ecological Interpretation, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
  
  
• Davidson, Marshall B., The American Heritage History of Colonial Antiques, American Heritage Publishing C.
  
  
• Hargreaves, Reginald, The British Serviceman in North America and the Caribbean, 1655 - 1783, Walker and Co., New York, NY
  
  
• Parkman, Francis, The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 and 2, Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, MA 1919
  
  
• Beers, Henry Puyney, The French and British in the Old Northwest - A Bibliographical Guide to Archive and Manuscripts, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI 1964
  
  
• LaCrosse, Richard B., Jr., The Frontier Rifleman, His Arms, Clothing, and Equipment During the Era of the American Revolution, 1760 - 1800, Pioneer Press, Union City, NJ 1989
  
  
• Grant, Madison, The Kentucky Rifle Hounting Pouch, Maple Press, York, PA 1977
  
  
• Kannick, Kathleen, The Lady's Guide to Plain Sewing, Kannick Corner, 1993
  
  
• De Schweinitz, Edmund, The Life and Tines of David Zeisberger, J. B. Lippincott and Co., Philadelphia PA 1870
  
  
• Graham, James, The Life of General Daniel Morgan, Derby and Jackson, New York, NY 1856
  
  
• Hanson, James A., The Long Hunter's Sketch Book, The Fur Press, Chadron, NE 1983
  
  
• Rosenberger, Richard F. & Kaufmann, Charles, The Longrifles of Western Pennsylvania Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA 1993
  
  
• Kauffman, Henry J., The Pennsylvania - Kentucky Rifle, Bonanza, New York, NY 1960
  
  
• Buck, Solon J. and Elizabeth Hawthorn, The Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA 1939
  
  
• Kindig, Joe, Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in its Golden Age, Goerge Shumway Publisher, York, PA 1983
  
  
• Gilgun, Beth, Tidings from the 18th Century, Rebel Publishing, Texarkana, TX 1993
  
  
• Johnson, Cathy, Walk Softly... Moccasins in the context of the Primary Documents, Graphics/Fine Arts Press, Excelsior Springs, MO 1996
  
  
• Johnson, Cathy, Who Was I Creating a Living History Persona, Graphics/Fine Arts Press, Excelsior Springs, MO 1995