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When Every Boy Could Shoot
The long-barreled rifle of the pioneer was often his sole means of obtaining meat, and what was of even greater importance it was his weapon of defense against not only wild animals but marauding Indians and the equally bloodthirsty white renegades.
To enable him to live up to the first law of nature, which is self-preservation, every boy was trained to shoot and to shoot straight just as soon as he was able to lift the heavy rifle and aim it. Then when his father was called away from home by his work the boy became the protector of and provider for the family, and his ability to do
both of these things depended on his skill as a sharpshooter, and if you are a bred-in-the-bone American boy you have in the very nature of things inherited the quick draw, the sharp sight and the steady nerve of your hardy forefathers—and so you ought to make a crack shot.
Collins, A. Frederick. Shooting, for Boys,. New York: Moffat, Yard and, 1917. Print.
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