"Kentucky Rifles of the Great Smoky Mountains" Exhibit and Book

The Kentucky Rifle Foundation & the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center present

“Kentucky Rifles of the Great Smoky Mountains”

The Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center is 3/4 mile east of traffic light at the Highway 321 and 73 intersection towards the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Townsend, Tennessee.

This exhibit goes until October 25, 2018. If you can't make it to Tennessee then the book will be a great addition to your library. The book contains all the rifles, pistols and hunting pouches in the exhibit.

The photography in the book is by Kenneth Orr with the front and back covers by Randal. The Kentucky Rifle Foundation was a sponsor of this exhibit. 

Available for $25.00, plus $5.00 packaging and shipping, in cash, check, or money order.  Send orders to:

Randal Pierce

963 Hitch Rd.
Maryville, TN  37804 

The 2018 Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show had a display this past year, "Brothers in Arms" which featured several rifles and 2 pistols that are in "Kentucky Rifles of the Great Smoky Mountains" book and are in the exhibit.

More photos from this exhibit can be seen here.

The "Bear Pistol" was part of the exhibit and the book. This pistol was also on display at the Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show.

One of the great things about the Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show is the wonderful rifles on display and for sell. Randal Pierce is the person to contact if you want an invitation to the show.

41st Annual Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show

Friday and Saturday

April 12-13, 2019

The Pacific Beyond the Alleghenies

Originally published in 1651 by John Farrer, a representative of the Virginia Company, this 1667 edition was issued by Farrer's daughter, Virginia. It perpetuates the notion that the Pacific Ocean lay just across the Allegheny Mountains—separated by a narrow strip of land that could be traveled in only "ten days marche." At this time, the actual distance between the two oceans was unknown, but the intention was to link Sir Francis Drake's 1577 landing in New Albion (Point Reyes, California) with the recently settled Virginia colony, thereby substantiating British claims to the breadth of the continent.

A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye hills, and in it's latt. from 35 deg. & 1/2 neer Florida to 41 deg. bounds of New England 

Contributor Names

Ferrar, John, 1590?-1657.

Farrer, Virginia, 1628-1668.

Goddard, John, active 1645-1671.

Overton, John, 1640-1708?

Created / Published

[London] : John Overton, [ca. 1667]

Subject Headings

-  Virginia--Maps--Early works to 1800

-  United States--Virginia

Notes

-  Relief shown pictorially.

-  Based on a manuscript map drawn by John Farrer.

-  Oriented with north to the right.

-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

-  Includes text, portrait of Sir Frances Drake, and ill.

-  Vault

Medium

1 map : hand col. ; 27 x 36 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

G3880 1667 .F3

Repository

Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3880.ct000903

Library of Congress Control Number

2002623130

LCCN Permalink

https://lccn.loc.gov/2002623130

Library of Congress Online Catalog

https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=STNO&searchArg=2002623130&searchType=1&recCount=10

The graphics on this map are amazing. The mountains, trees or animals would work on a powder horn.

Copy and photos from here. Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America Before Lewis & Clark

Beyond the Allegheny Mountains

Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark were all culturally and intellectually Virginians. As the leading figures in what became the Lewis and Clark Expedition, they were steeped in a colonial legacy that optimistically looked westward in anticipation of exploiting the treasures of an Eden that lay beyond the Allegheny Mountains. In the earliest stages of Chesapeake tidewater settlement, Virginia, like other colonies, had an imperial mentality and vision that encompassed the entire breadth of the continent. During the last half of the eighteenth century Virginia's leaders, as well as those in other colonies, began to consider more practical means to reach Eden beyond the mountains. Virginians, including Jefferson and George Washington, believed that by building canals and improving navigation on the colony's major rivers—the James and the Potomac—they could defeat similar schemes that centered on the Hudson River and New York City. And at its grandest, the Virginia imperial vision also reached out to the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri rivers. Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia confidently declared that such rivers could extend the reach of an American empire beyond the mountains, perhaps even to the western sea.

Copy and illustration from here. Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America Before Lewis & Clark

"On the Trails of the Iroquois" Exhibit at the Bundeskunsthalle

Manfred Schmitz has been able to acquire a limited license from the Bundeskunsthalle office for the use of these images until the end of August at which time they will be delete from Contemporary Makers Blog.

Ernest Smith sky women Seneca Tonawanda Reservation, New York 1936, 

Aquarell Rochester Museum and Science Center

pipehead iroquoise  17th century ,wood

National Museum of Denmark, Kopenhagen

cradle Seneca, 1860

National Museum of Denmark, Kopenhagen

Ezra Ames Joseph Brant 1806, oil painting 

Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown

spoon Onondaga before 1909, wood

American Museum of Natural History, New York

Scottish powder horn with Iroquoise strap 1758,  

on loan courtesy of the Trustees of National Museums of Scotland

Copy and photos supplied by Contemporary Makers' European Correspondent, Manfred Schmitz.

"On the Trails of the Iroquois" Exhibit at the Bundeskunsthalle

Manfred Schmitz has been able to acquire a limited license from the Bundeskunsthalle for the use of these images until the end of August at which time they will be delete from Contemporary Makers Blog.

John Verelst (1670–1740) Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow, König der Maquas (Mohawk) 1710, 

Öl auf Leinwand Library and Archives Canada, Gatineau, QC

Knife sheath Iroquoise or Algonquian mid 18th century 

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Oil Painting from Benjamin West (1738-1820)  General Johnson 

1764-1768  

Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Thomas Hicks (after Robert Walter Weir) Sagoyewatha (Red Jacket) 1868, Oil Painting  

National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Quillt bag 18th century 

Peter der Große Museum für Anthropologie und Ethnographie der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, St. Petersburg

This is the piece that was reproduced by Michael Galban that is part of the exhibit that was posted here.

bag  St. Lorenz-Valley early 18th century   

Musée du quai Branly, Paris

sash great lakes mid 18th century   

Musée du quai Branly, Paris

Copy and photos supplied by Contemporary Makers' European Correspondent, Manfred Schmitz.

The Longhouse at the Bundeskunsthalle from "On the Trails of the Iroquois" Exhibit

outside the longhouse

I have been to the exhibit at the Bundeskunsthalle and I must say it was great!! You are not allowed to make pictures of the items.

Copy and photos supplied by Contemporary Makers' European Correspondent, Manfred Schmitz.

"On the Trails of the Iroquois" from the Exhibit

reconstruction of an Iroquois longhouse in Bonn Germany, accompanying the exhibition "On the Trails of the Iroquois"

Images from the Facebook page of the Brundeskunsthalle.

Czech Exhibit of Plains Indians

Photos supplied by Tom Connin.