Did Isaiah Lukens construct the air gun nicknamed “Great Medicine” that the 1803-’06 Corps of Discovery brought to impress the Indians on their journey West, or was he too young to have made the unusual rifle while still apprenticing at his father’s clock factory in Horsham? Or, was the air gun with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark actually a European-ma


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