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| | Never Yet Melted » Ithaca Gun Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The Ithaca Gun Company was founded in Fall Creek, NY in 1883 by the renowned American arms designer William Henry Baker, in partnership with Leroy & Lou Smith, George Livermore, J.E. VanNatta, and Dwight McIntire. |
 | | Field grade Ithacas were inexpensive, but they were rugged and simple, and were famous for their fast lock-time. |
 | | Ithaca guns were used by Annie Oakley, John Phillip Souza (Ithaca’s most opulent productions were once called their “Souza-grade”), George Marshall, and Dwight Eisenhower, and admired by such well-known sporting writers as Charles Askins, Elmer Keith, and Michael McIntosh. |
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