A Kentucky girl would have shot better...

[Leifer]

"...I had more than half believed that the "bug [buck] ague" was a imaginary complaint -- but to day I was staggered -- to test the thing fairly, with a good [Kentucky] rifle, on level ground, on a steady rest and first rate "death dust". I shot at and missed an elk and an antelope at a distance that a Kentucky girl would have bored a squirrel's eye out. I'm disgusted with theories." -- William Anderson

I had got a kick out of that when I read it. Would I be correct in assuming that "death dust" = powder?

Leifer

[Rod]

I think most Kentucky girls shoot better than I do......

Rod

[beaudro]

Cool stuff Leif, who is William Anderson?

[isaac]

Not sure about Kentucky girls but my Wisconsin girl wife can out shoot most people I know, including myself on most days.

IW

[Rod]

The Rocky Mountain Journals of William Marshall Anderson: The West in 1834, edited by Dale Morgan.

www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0803259107/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

Rod

[Leifer]

You beat me to it Rod

Here's a brief explanation. Real scholarly...it's Wikipedia...you can always trust that

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marshall_Anderson

Leifer

[beaudro]

thank you gentlemen, it's on my kindle now..

[Duane]

death dust lol