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Guns That Won The West-Hardbound

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Out of the variously titled "Guns of the Old, Wild or Whatever West" books, this is one of the better ones in terms of describing the guns and putting the overall historical picture into perspective. HOWEVER, it is very short on illustrations and photographs. I'd recommend it to anyone who has any of the other references that are strong on two page color layouts of a whole mess of guns, but very little meat about them as a sort of companion volume, but wouldn't recommend it very strongly as a stand-alone reference. Maybe the most valuable feedback I can give is that I already have most of the available books on the topic, got tired of checking this one out of the library and finally bought my own copy.

The books information about the history of firearms was accurate. However, the patent numbers published were wrong in a good deal of the listings. I highly doubt the author got these wrong, and in fact, it was the publishers fault. One would think that the publisher would employ a fact checker to check the facts after the type setter has had their hand in the printing. Mostly, they would get two numbers reversed, or they would double a number, while leaving one out.

On about every page in my book, I have made hand written corrections to the listed patent numbers, and it would seem to me, that out of say every three patent numbers, they screwed up one.