sharpshooter

This is a staged photo. The body was dragged some distance to the location. Even the gun was taken from someone else!

If you visit Gettysburg, it's creepy how much time has stood still. Maybe somebody rebuilt the wall in the spot to match the photo, but it definitely looks the same. Our guide showed us pictures of the same corpse in another spot on the hill, so they were definitely dragged around.

Yeah, I've heard.

Mrs. Topperwein is mentioned in some detail ( as part of "The Fabulous Topperweins" ) in the wikipedia entry on Exhibition Shooting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibition_shooting

Here is another interesting article: www.traphof.org/roadtoyesterday/november2000.htm

she looks like annie oakley!

Hi, this photo is being discussed in one of the projects in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool!

What a wonderful photo! I've used it for an entry on my blog, "An Englishman In New Jersey" englishmannj.blogspot.com called "I Don't Get Guns, Cowboy" englishmannj.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-don-get-guns-cowboy.html

Graham.

About him www.usashooting.org/alumni-association/hall-of-fame/morri...

see also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Fisher

New York area marksman C.B. Winder - Winner of the Leech Cup match held in Sea Girt, New Jersey, in 1903 - mentioned in a New York Times article as Captain C.B. Winder - query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9906E6D71230E132A...

The rifle is the 1905 version of the 1903 Springfield.

nice rifle

1911 photo, probably taken at the National Military marksmanship contests at Camp Perry, Ohio. This was the fifth year in a row that the contests had been held at Camp Perry. Colonel A. C. Sharpe was at Camp Perry also:

I added him to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._B._Winder