In an article published only months earlier, he had originally identified an Isaiah Lukens-marked airgun that is at the Virginia Military Institute Museum, as “The Lewis & Clark air gun.” ...

In a post I wrote about “10 Guns that Shaped America,” the Girandoni air rifle was near the ... Girandoni carried by Meriwether Lewis when he and William Clark led the Corps of Discovery ...

Lewis and Clark, on the other hand, had been dealing with the enemies of the Blackfeet all along and had promised them guns. So what they were describing was essentially an escalation of the ...