TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paulsen,Gary
TI  - The rifle
SN  - 0440219205 (pbk.) :
AV  - PZ7.P2843 Rh 1995
U1  - [Fic] 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
KW  - Rifles
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
N2  - A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994. In 1768, a gunsmith named Cornish McManus built a rifle of such accuracy that he knew he could never create another like it. He intended to treasure his masterpiece, but with a new wife to provide for, he felt pressed to sell it. Soon the rifle was helping one John Byam become a legendary sharpshooter in the American Revolution. But when Byam succumbed to dysentery, the weapon was passed on to yet another owner...and then to another and another, until the present day. Strangely, in all the time of the rifle after John Byam's death and through all the people who looked at it and held it to their shoulder, not once in the life of the rifle did anybody ever think to see if it was loaded. The rifle was loaded
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/rifle00paulrich
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL24218428M
ER  -