Dear List, There is a bit about the Kentucky rifle, also known as the jaeger rifle, Pennsylvania rifle, or the Virginia rifle, in: Parke Rouse, Jr., The Great Wagon Road: From Philadelphia to the South, How the Scotch-Irish and Germanics Settled the Uplands. Richmond: The Dietz Press, 1995, pp. 119, 187. Rouse gives the names of some of the gunsmiths who made these rifles: Henry Spitzer of New Market, Virginia Adam Haymaker of Winchester the Sheetz family of Luray Arthur Hopkins Bend, Oregon www.coinet.com/~arthopkins/