[PDF] Guns On The Early Frontiers eBook

Author : Carl P. Russell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0486140237

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DIVThoroughly documented reference identifies guns used in America during eastern settlement and westward expansion. The highly readable survey describes those who used and sold weapons as well as those who made them. 58 rare illustrations. /div

Author : Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803289031

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"Here is a book for the historian, the student, the gun collector or aficionado. . . . It approaches understatement to call Guns on the Early Frontiers an outstanding contribution to firearms literature. It sets its own standard."--New York Times. "A Glossary of Gun Terms, ample footnotes most skillfully arranged and illustrations beyond the dreams of avarice complement the text, which achieves the miracle of scholarship without tedium."--W.H. Hutchinson, San Francisco Chronicle. "Not the least interesting portions of the book are the notes and glossary and the excellent bibliography. Here [is] a book designed primarily for the serious collector or gun historian, but whose readable style should appeal even to the casual amateur. The collecting of old guns, whether privately or by a public institution, involves a certain responsibility. These guns, whose history is inextricably linked with the history of settlement, require something more than careful preservations. They require--and the present volume goes far to supply--accurate documentation."--Canadian Historical Review. Carl P. Russell, a leading authority on firearms of the American frontier, was coordinator of planning for the science and history museums and other interpretive facilities of the National Park Service in the Western United States.

Author : Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher :
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780760701690

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This is an account of the guns that, in the hands of Indians, trappers, and soldiers, helped shape the history of the American West.

Author : Nathan E. Bender
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1476632723

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Symbolic ornamentation inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art is a long-standing Western tradition. The author explores the designs of 18th century English gunsmiths who engraved classical ornamental patterns on firearms gifted or traded to American Indians. A system of allegory is found that symbolized the Americas of the New World in general, and that enshrined the American Indian peoples as "noble savages." The same allegorical context was drawn upon for symbols of national liberty in the early American republic. Inadvertently, many of the symbolic designs used on the trade guns strongly resonated with several Native American spiritual traditions.