A report on the feasibility and advisability of some policy to inaugurate a system of rifle practice throughout the public schools of the country

George Wood Wingate

George Wood Wingate was an American lawyer, soldier, civil servant and organizer of rifle practice. During the Civil War he served in the New York National Guard which later encouraged him to promote marksmanship skills for American citizens. He was the co-founder, and later president, of the National Rifle Association of America.