"Mister Rifleman" is a large format 1961 book, finished after TW's death by Bradford Angier. It pictures and describes many of TW's rifles. Very interesting. "The Hunting Rifle", 1940 Stackpole, is another great one. There were a couple of books on sights and scopes, of interest mostly to early rifle collectors, that are interesting to me, but have lost themselves in the library. I thought they were next to "The Life of Donald Duck", 1939 and "Uncle Wiggily's Happy Days", but the Whelen books seem to have been moved by some unnamed person. In my collection is Townsend Whelen's A.P. Curtis Parker try gun that went from the DuPont shooting collection, through the Parker-Whelen gun store in Washington, D.C., to a Parker-Whelen stockmaker whose name I don't recall, to Ben Toxvard at Shenandoah Gun Shop in Berryville, Virginia, and finally, after much negotiation, to me.
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