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Firearms played an important role on the American frontier. Used to hunt animals for food and clothing, they also safeguarded one’s home against outlaws and other hostile elements. This definitive, scrupulously researched work describes and illustrates the many different weapons that opened up and secured the American West. Enhanced with colorful anecdotes, the vividly detailed narrative tells the dramatic story of shoulder arms, hand guns, percussion and cartridge weapons, and describes the hunters, settlers, peace officers, stagecoach drivers, soldiers, range detectives, rustlers, outlaws, Indian chiefs, and other picturesque characters who used them.
Here are detailed descriptions and illustrations of the Kentucky rifle that saw battle in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812; the repeating rifle used in the Civil War; the Sharps rifle that wreaked havoc during the great buffalo hunts; the Colt revolver, used by cowboys and outlaws alike; the fast and reliable Winchester rifle, the most widely used shoulder arm of the post-Civil War era; as well as flintlock pistols, derringers, muskets, buffalo guns, carbines, signal pistols, Confederate revolvers, and many other celebrated firearms.
Illustrated with nearly 500 photographs and line illustrations, this classic reference will not only be invaluable to dealers and collectors but will also appeal to Americana devotees, weaponry enthusiasts, and students of the American West.
Here are detailed descriptions and illustrations of the Kentucky rifle that saw battle in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812; the repeating rifle used in the Civil War; the Sharps rifle that wreaked havoc during the great buffalo hunts; the Colt revolver, used by cowboys and outlaws alike; the fast and reliable Winchester rifle, the most widely used shoulder arm of the post-Civil War era; as well as flintlock pistols, derringers, muskets, buffalo guns, carbines, signal pistols, Confederate revolvers, and many other celebrated firearms.
Illustrated with nearly 500 photographs and line illustrations, this classic reference will not only be invaluable to dealers and collectors but will also appeal to Americana devotees, weaponry enthusiasts, and students of the American West.
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African Game Trails
Alexis, Grand Duke
Allen, C. B.
Allen, Ethan
Allen, W. C.
Allen & Co., E.
Allen & Thurber
Allen & Wheelock
Allison, Clay
Alsop, C. R.
American Arms Company
American Fur Company
Ames, N. P.
Amoskeag Mfg. Company
Annals of San Francisco
Ansted, A. & J.
Army and Navy Journal
Aston, Henry
Aston & Co., H.
Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Bacon & Co.
Ballard, Charles H.
Ballard & Co., C. H.
Bancroft, H. H.
Barbary Coast
Bardshar, Henry
Barnes, Will C.
Barrett, S. (Deacon)
Bart, Black
Bass, Samuel
Bedford, Jack
Beecher, Henry Ward
Behan, Johnny
Bellingham, Massachusetts
Benet, Brig. General S. V.
Berdan, Colonel Hiram
Berdan’s Sharpshooters
Big Springs, Colorado
Billy the Kid
Bird & Co., c.
Bitterlich & Co., F. R. J.
Blunderbusses
Blunt & Syms
Bolen, J. G.
Bolton, Charles E.
Boone, Daniel
Booth, John Wilkes
Borgia, Cesare
Boulton, J. J. Henry
Boxer Rebellion
Braddock, General
Breakenridge, William
Brocius, Curly Bill
Brown, Captain
Brown, John
Brown, William H.
Brown Mfg. Company
Bruff, R. P.
Buffalo guns
Buffalo hunting
Buntline, Ned
Burch, Dab
Calamity Jane
Calderwood, William
California. Inter Pocula
Canby, General E. R. S.
Canton, F. M.
Cap lock
Carbines
Colt Berdan Russian single-shot, breech-loading cartridge
Paterson-Colt revolving-cylinder percussion
Sharps breech-loading percussion
U. S. magazine, model 1896
U. S. magazine, model 1898
U. S. rifled, of 1855
Winchester, model 1892
Winchester lever-action repeating, model 1873
Winchester lever-action repeating, model 1876
Winchester lever-action repeating, model 1895
Carey, Senator
Carrington, Colonel
Carver, Will
Cassidy, Butch, see Parker, George
Century of Achievement, A
Chamberlain, Richard H.
Champion, Nate
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Cilley, Jonathan
Civil War
Clanton, Old Man
Clark, I. Jones
Clarke & Co., F. H.
Clarke, James J.
Cochran, J. W.
Cody, Buffalo Bill
Collier, Elisha Haydon
Collier, John Haydon
Collins, Joel
Colt, Samuel
Colt Firearms, 1836—1954
Colt Patent Firearms Mfg. Company
Confederate hand guns
Constable, Richard
Continental Congress
Cooke, Jacob
Cora, Charles
Cowan, William
Cowles, Captain W. S.
Crazy Horse
Crimean War
Curry, Charles
Curry, John
Curry, Kid, see Logan, Harvey
Curry, Nathaniel
Curry & Bro., N.
Custer Massacre
Daily Alta California
Dance Brothers & Park
Dancing Rabbit Creek, Treaty of
Darling, Barton & Benjamin
Daste, John
Davis, H. C.
Davis, Lieutenant
Deadwood, South Dakota
Deal, Pony
Dean, Herman P.
De Huff, Gonter & Dickert
Denver Sun
Deringer, Henry, Jr.
dueling pistols
flintlock martial firearms
imitators and counterfeiters
pocket pistols
Deringer, Henry, Sr.
Deringer, John
Deringer, John H.
Deringer Rifle and Pistol Works
Deringer vs. Plate
Derringers, see Pistols
Dimick, H. E.
Dimick & Co., H. E.
Dodge, General Grenville
Earp, Wyatt
Easton, Pennsylvania
Eaton, J.
Ehlers, John
Elizabeth I
Erichson, G.
Evans, J. E.
Evans, John R.
Evans, O. & E.
Fetterman, Colonel William J.
Fisher, King
Fleeger, John
Folsom & Stevens
Forehand & Wadsworth
Forsyth, Alexander
Fort Philip Kearny
Frye, Martin
Fuller, Claude E.
Gard, Wayne
Geronimo
Gettysburg, battle of
Gillett, James B.
Glassick & Co., F.
Glaze & Co., William
Gore, Sir St. George
Gore Expedition
Gould, Clarence
Grant, General U. S.
Graves, William J.
Griswold & Grier
Grounds, Billy
Gues...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- I - How Suns Began
- II - The Kentucky Rifle and Pistol Head West
- III - Flintlock Pistols on the Frontier
- IV - Musket, Rifle and Carbine: American Martial Shoulder Arms
- V - Pepperboxes: Percussion and Cartridge
- VI - Pocket=Sized Death: Development of the Famous Deringer
- VII - The Voice of the Derringer: Imitations, Counterfeits and Pocket Pistol
- VIII - Twilight of the Derringer: Breech=loading Cartridge Types; the Derringer in Transition
- IX - Captain Walker’s Gun=Hunt: Early Colt Revolvers
- X - Martial Percussion Hand guns on the Frontier: U.S. Martial and Secondary Martial Pistols and American Martial Revolvers
- XI - Johnny Kept His Gun: Confederate Firearms in the West
- XII - Revolving Shoulder Arms and Related Weapons
- XIII - When the Colt Was King: The Immortal ’72 Model Peacemaker, and Others
- XIV - Sunsmoke Over Powder River The Winchester Rifle
- XV - The Indian Campaigns: U. S. Martial Arms of the Post = Civil War Era
- XVI - Buffalo Guns and Hunters
- XVII - The Shotgun Guards the Stage
- XVIII - The Guns of Teddy Roosevelt
- Bibliography
- INDEX
- A CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS OF INTEREST