[PDF] Guns On The Early Frontiers Etc A Reduced Photographic Reprint Of The Edition Of 1957 eBook

Author : Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 16,33 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 P. Russell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 27,2 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 :
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 34,74 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 : John Walter
Publisher : Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2005-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781853676925

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Covering a wide range of firearms, from the smallest pistol to the rifles of the buffalo hunters used by plainsmen and settlers, gamblers and engineers, Native Americans and the soldiers of the United States Army. Meticulously researched by a foremost authority on firearms, this is an indispensable guide to the opening of the American West. John Walter examines pre-Civil War mass production and technical advances, and the effect of readily available post-war surplus weapons on life in the Midwest. He traces the swift expansion of the West, which led to a perpetual struggle against the Native Americans and brought the United States Army in its wake. John Walter also examines whether law was dispensed at the point of a gun and whether it was the Colt or the Winchester that reigned supreme at the OK Corral. Describing particular Western desperadoes and the most popular Wild West firearms, he goes on to investigate how gun design influenced use and use influenced design. With detailed descriptions and performance evaluations of all the leading firearms, this book is an essential reference guide which cuts away the myth and legend and reveals the truth behind the guns, and the men who used them, in the heyday of the West.