Wallace Gusler
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Wallace Gusler is a native Virginian who grew up in Fort Lewis Hollow at the foot of Fort Lewis Mountain in Roanoke, County. Living practically in the shadow of Andrew Lewis’s French and Indian War fort could have been what sparked Wallace’s interest in the frontier and longrifles but it wasn’t. Despite their name, Fort Lewis School largely ignored this local history. Instead it was the “arrowheads” that he found in plowed fields that inspired Wallace’s fascination first with Indians, then with the Virginia frontier. In about 1954 Wallace’ father, Lester Gusler, decided to replace a ...
