{"id":4499,"date":"2011-04-25T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/04\/25\/fort-pitt-museum-american-frontier\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:14:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:14:18","slug":"fort-pitt-museum-american-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4499","title":{"rendered":"Fort Pitt Museum: The American Frontier Rifleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17700,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.post-gazette.com\\\/pg\\\/11115\\\/1141781-53.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.post-gazette.com\\\/pg\\\/11115\\\/1141781-53.stm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:17701,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.heinzhistorycenter.org\\\/secondary.aspx?id=303&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20141004093553\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.heinzhistorycenter.org\\\/secondary.aspx?id=303&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 13:44:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 13:44:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just in time for the NRA Annual Meeting this week, the Fort Pitt Museum will open an exhibit entitled The American Frontier Rifleman: Tall Tales and Truth. Opening Wednesday, the exhibit will run until October 30th. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/11115\/1141781-53.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The exhibit will include more than 50 objects, some on loan from institutions, many culled from private collections.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to about a dozen rifles, the museum will showcase gear essential to the true rifleman. Powder horns &#8212; cow horns used to carry gunpowder &#8212; make an appearance, including an 18th century example engraved with patriotic sayings: &#8220;LIBERTY OR DEATH,&#8221; &#8220;KILL OR be KILLD.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An original 18th century hunting shirt, a dusty-looking but well-tailored garment, also will be displayed. Owned by a collector, the shirt will be shown to the public for the first time this week, Mr. Gutchess said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were thousands of these garments in existence in the period, and now there&#8217;s only four believed to be from the 18th century,&#8221; he said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Admission to the museum is normally $5 but NRA members will only have to pay $2.50 with their membership card through May 1st. I was pleased to see that the Fort Pitt Museum in just a few blocks away from the David Lawrence Convention Center where the Annual Meeting will be held.<\/p>\n<p>For a student of early American history, this sounds like a great exhibit. It is hard to believe now but Pittsburgh at one time was definitely considered the frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Originally built as a British fort at the Forks of the Ohio River in 1754, Fort Pitt served as the western headquarters for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heinzhistorycenter.org\/secondary.aspx?id=303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The fort had many names<\/a> over the years including Trent&#8217;s Fort, Fort Duquense, Fort Mercer, Fort Dunmore, and, more than once, Fort Pitt.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for the NRA Annual Meeting this week, the Fort Pitt Museum will open an exhibit entitled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4358,4334,4352],"class_list":["post-4499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fort-pitt-museum","tag-nra-annual-meeting-2011","tag-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions\/6580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}