The Kentucky Long Rifle

My 8th Great Grandfather, Robert Baker, invented the Kentucky Long Rifle (originally known as the Pennsylvania Long Rifle). It was the deadliest weapon of it's time.




"Robert Baker married Mary Mollie Bowling who is believed to be from the same Bollin family with ties to Pocahontus, but not to Mary Mollie Bowling's line.

John "Renta" Baker, son of Robert & Mary Mollie Bowling, was one of the famous "Longhunters". Men who went west of the Blue Ridge Mountains for the first time on extended hunting & trapping trips. He was also a memeber of the "Cleveland Bull Dogs", who ran the Tories out of Wilkes/Ashe County, NC and surrounding areas just before the Revolutionary War." -Information in " " are written by BYRON BROWN