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[Doco overboard]

Daniel Boone himself was born in Weiser State forest south west of Lenhartsville Pa, below Lebanon and then headed through the Cumberland gap trying to reach the Mississippi but ran into such game rich territory he became loaded down with hides that he eventually lost due to Indian problems.It was a two year journey there a bouts on a big tribal hunting ground that encompassed what is now also part of North Carolina. The tales that were told of the new frontier quickly surpassed the excitement of the now settled and relatively tame Pennsylvania countryside. I think the irony is not very many Pennsylvania rifles were ever made in Kentucky. It was okay though with the locals that Kentucky stole the namesake of the rifles because the next earthshaking step in PA was Pottsville High School Football, and Yuengling beer of course ,the oldest brewery in America to this day. Working as a power lineman and walking down damaged lines next to the Blue Mountain in Northern Berks Co., I have seen property markers that were clumps of rifle barrels driven into the ground next to stone monuments that were near the dutch farms. I thought they were parts of rusted wrought iron gates or something. Property lines then were made with stone fences and the corners marked out. Someone had to tell me what they were. Wish I had a camera or could go back.