- Author
- Hensel, W. U.
- Date of Publication
- 1905
manufacture to
the Alpine mountaineers of Switzer-
land. The Swiss colony that settled
at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1721,
came from the Canton of Basle or
Basel. They were all mechanics and
most of them gunsmiths. Prior to
their advent the only firearms known
in America were smooth-bore muskets
and fowling