The Book of Rifles Author:W.H.B. Smith & Joseph E. Smith The Ability to shoot a rifle is an American tradition. Our coumtry was established and its borders expanded westward by men with rifles in their hands. The rifle gave the settlers protection against marauding Indians and other foes...The publisher takes real pleasure in presenting this new Third Edition as the finest work of its kind in existe... more »nce. (as of 1948!)« less