The Sites gunshow in Arrow Rock is most interesting & well provided for, worth a visit, etc. BUT Sites was a VIRGINIA maker and carried his style with him to MO. The same is true of Valentine Schuler (OH) and Jacob Briggle (Bedford co, PA). And of course the Hawken clan started in Hagerstown, MD, and came to MO by way of OH. It is truly unfortunate that we think of the St. Louis plains rifle makers as the only MO gunsmiths of consequence. There were other "schools" centering in such places as, e.g, St. Joseph and Cape Girardeau.
