... I have eight (8) filing cabinet drawers full of gunmaker paper files. Imagine if all of this was available on line. ....
Michael,
Certainly that is why most people do the "pay and play" on the Internet Gun Club.
Imagine if Swinney's work was available for a fee on-line. Or all the back issues of The Gun Report. Or a dozen other magazines and journals.
I found an old article in The Gun Report that talks about "a common practice" of using indentured servants as apprentice gunsmiths in America. That one item alone needs to be substantiated, qualified or refuted. But no one knows, it is buried.
The recent on-line access of tax records has given me some very interesting leads. It seems one of the gunsmith's I am researching reports several tons of cast iron ingots in their possession during the Civil war....
I was surprised to learn that my site is now being used as a reference in a couple of ezine articles.
The last I heard, John Campbell was still publishing the former ezine Double Gun Classics, only now in paper form. Not sure if that is successful for him.
Pete
