Guns of the Old West
An Illustrated Reference Guide to Antique Firearms
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Written by one of the foremost firearms experts of the twentieth century, Charles Edward Chapel's Guns of the Old West is an exhaustively researched document that not only boasts a significant collection of antique Western guns, but also categorizes the firearms into easy-to-reference sections.Starting with an introductory chapter on the origins of guns and their earliest uses on the frontier, Chapel covers everything from muskets to rifles, pistols to revolvers, and shotguns to martial arms. Three whole chapters are dedicated to the rise and fall of the famous Deringer pistol. And as much as Guns of the Old West is an encyclopedic reference manual, it's also fascinating historical literature that frames the world in which these guns were used. Buffalo guns and hunters are covered, along with martial arms of the post–Civil War era. The gun collection of famous collector and hunter President Theodore Roosevelt is given its own chapter.Illustrated with nearly 500 illustrations, as well as important artwork from the Western period from artists such as Frederic Remington, Guns of the Old West is an essential work for gun collectors and American history enthusiasts.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- I How Guns 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 Competitors of Deringer’s 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 Gunsmoke 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