Thoroughly documented reference identifies guns used in America during eastern settlement and westward expansion.The highly readable survey describes the traders, trappers, soldiers, and Native Americans who used and sold weapons as well as those who made them. Rare illustrations depict everything from antique muskets, repeating rifles, and revolving pistols to bullet molds and powder horns.
A new biography by the award-winning author of Walt Whitman's America captures the turbulent life of John Brown, shedding new light on the controversial abolitionist who was responsible for the massacre of unarmed citizens in Kansas, liberation of slaves in Missouri, and raid on the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in his anti-slavery campaign. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
The various Civil War era firearms produced under the patents of Edward Lindner encompass some of the rarest of American breech loading arms. These include muzzle loading rifles and carbines converted to his breech loader design as well as altered Hall Patent rifles and new made carbines. There has been a scarcity of correct information about their history and use. This book provides collectors and arms historians with a more complete and correct historical record of the manufacture and ...
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