Condition: Very Good – 320 Pages
This book records, in pictures and words, the life story of the National Rifle Association of Americia,which was founded in 1871, from its first venturesome steps in sponsoring marksmanship training for the New York State National Guard to its position nearly a century later as a national service organization for all law-abiding Americans who use firearms for defense and recreation. In more than three hundred rare, historical photographs, and in objective reporting, this book affords fascinating glimpses of many activities: the first shooting matches in the nineteenth century, illustrating highly individualistic shooting positions of those days and relating incidents of great sportsmanship; the founding of important shooting trophies; how women penetrated the man’s world of competitive shooting; the whole Creedmoor to Camp Perry national marksmanship saga. A full, candid, thoroughly researched and straightforward biography of American ideas and ideals in all of their progress. A program highly praised by almost every President of the United States in the past century. Printed in 1967 – 320 pages – Hard bound with dust cover. Condition: Very Good.
