For two hundred years the great wilderness of the American West was being opened up and slowly destroyed by settlers from the east. Their prime tool was the gun, and the longarm and pistol have achieved legendary status in the folklore of the Wild West. In the hands of scouts, cowboys, ordinary settlers and Native Americans the gun helped to forge an era that was to draw to a close at the end of the nineteenth century. Firearms of the American West tells the story of the guns used in the West during this period, which included the Indian Wars, the Civil War and the Gold Rushes. Copiously illustrated, no Western fan or gun enthusiast will want to be without this book.
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Martin Pegler is a Senior Curator at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. He is the author of several books on historical firearms, including Powder and Ball Small Arms, also published by Crowood.
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Very interesting book,
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This review is from: Firearms in the American West 1700-1900 (Hardcover)
I found this book in the base library and brought it home, after that I could not put it down. The author seems to cover this very interesting period of firearms development with some very interesting back stories on the inventors as well as some of the men that put them to use.This book led me to Amazon in search of the book Gun Smoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West, also a great book a book written by a coauthor of this book.
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A good table top book. Skims over the technical aspects of the firearms used during the middle 1800's on ward. Nice photographs. Not meant as technical manual/reference material.
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The importance of the smoothbore musket in American history has been much undervalued, so completely has it been overshadowed by the rifle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
centrefire cartridge, sliding breechblock, shotgun market, rifle market, percussion ignition, loading lever, plains rifle, smoothbore barrel, military muskets, tube magazine, revolving rifle, grain charge, cartridge revolvers, double rifle, rimfire cartridge, percussion rifles, percussion pistols, conical bullet, gun trade, octagonal barrel, percussion musket, grain bullet, rolling block, duelling pistols, percussion lock Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Trustees of the Royal Armouries, Courtesy of the Trustees, Civil War, Ordnance Department, Harper's Ferry, United States, New York, Revolutionary War, Eli Whitney, John Browning, Wells Fargo, Trustees of the Roval Armouries, Board of Ordnance, Remington Rolling Block, Rollin White, Sam Colt, Christian Sharps, Mexican War, Samuel Colt, Simeon North, Walker Colt, Winchester Model, Colt Dragoon, Elisha Collier, John Marlin New!
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centrefire cartridge, sliding breechblock, shotgun market, rifle market, percussion ignition, loading lever, plains rifle, smoothbore barrel, military muskets, tube magazine, revolving rifle, grain charge, cartridge revolvers, double rifle, rimfire cartridge, percussion rifles, percussion pistols, conical bullet, gun trade, octagonal barrel, percussion musket, grain bullet, rolling block, duelling pistols, percussion lock Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Trustees of the Royal Armouries, Courtesy of the Trustees, Civil War, Ordnance Department, Harper's Ferry, United States, New York, Revolutionary War, Eli Whitney, John Browning, Wells Fargo, Trustees of the Roval Armouries, Board of Ordnance, Remington Rolling Block, Rollin White, Sam Colt, Christian Sharps, Mexican War, Samuel Colt, Simeon North, Walker Colt, Winchester Model, Colt Dragoon, Elisha Collier, John Marlin New!
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- The Oregon Trail (Economy Editions) by Francis Parkman on page 42, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Hunting Trips of a Ranchman by Theodore Roosevelt in Back Matter
- The Rocky Mountains (World's Wild Places) by Bryce S. Walker in Back Matter
- Sharps Firearms by Frank M. Sellers in Back Matter
- The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (Pivotal Moments in American History) by Elliott West on page 103
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