of the American rifle, identifies the French Huguenot as the originators of the arm. "In Shooting and Fishing" in 1897, she says. "The history of Pennsylvania's early settlers has been to some extent written �up. Its German, Swiss, Dutch, Irish, Welsh and French settlers given their respective places

colonies of New England in exchange for other commodities. Beans, mellons, potatoes and tobacco were also among their cultivated products to which Europeans fell heir. Their women cultivated the soil, the men engaged in fishing, hunt- ing and war. When they first met Europeans, the Indians had little or no