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Author: J. R. Roberts Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101610433 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
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MAN OR MONSTER? The sheriff of Effingham, Missouri, needs Clint Adams’ help to catch what is either a brutal killer or a wild animal. After seeing the corpse, Clint can’t imagine who—or what—could have so savagely mutilated the victim. But Romanian immigrant Frederick Talbot knows, and it is his responsibility to hunt down and destroy this predator. For Talbot claims to be a vampire and werewolf hunter, and he believes one of these creatures followed him to America from the old country. The Gunsmith doesn’t believe in superstitions, but he’ll team up with Talbot and pack silver bullets instead of lead if it means bringing a murderer—whether badman or beast—to justice… OVER 15 MILLION GUNSMITH BOOKS IN PRINT!
Author: J. R. Roberts Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101610433 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
MAN OR MONSTER? The sheriff of Effingham, Missouri, needs Clint Adams’ help to catch what is either a brutal killer or a wild animal. After seeing the corpse, Clint can’t imagine who—or what—could have so savagely mutilated the victim. But Romanian immigrant Frederick Talbot knows, and it is his responsibility to hunt down and destroy this predator. For Talbot claims to be a vampire and werewolf hunter, and he believes one of these creatures followed him to America from the old country. The Gunsmith doesn’t believe in superstitions, but he’ll team up with Talbot and pack silver bullets instead of lead if it means bringing a murderer—whether badman or beast—to justice… OVER 15 MILLION GUNSMITH BOOKS IN PRINT!
Author: Foxfire Fund, Inc. Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307757331 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 514
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The fifth Foxfire volume includes rain-making, blacksmithing, bear hunting, flintlock rifles, and more. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities Publisher: ISBN: Category : Apprentices Languages : en Pages : 434
Author: Alexander Rose Publisher: Delta ISBN: 0553384384 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 530
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George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. In this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of foot soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and spanning from the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of the rifle and its place in American culture.
Author: Charles Van Ravenswaay Publisher: University of Missouri Press ISBN: 9780826217004 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 580
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Many Germans who immigrated to America in the nineteenth century settled in the lower Missouri River valley between St. Charles and Boonville, Missouri. In this magnificent book, which includes some six hundred photographs and drawings, Charles van Ravenswaay examines that immigration--who came, how, and why--and surveys the distinctive Missouri-German architecture, art, and crafts produced in the towns or on the farms of the rural counties of Cooper, Cole, Osage, Gasconade, Franklin, Montgomery, Warren, and St. Charles from the 1830s until the closing years of the century. As the immigrants sought to transplant their native culture to the Missouri backwoods, the compromises they were forced to make with conditions in Missouri produced many fascinating and individualistic structures and objects. They built half-timbered, stone, and brick houses and barns with designs reflecting the traditions of the many German regions from which the builders emigrated. The author's far-reaching study of immigrants' arts and crafts included furniture in traditional peasant designs as well as the Biedermeier and eclectic styles, redware and stoneware pottery, textiles, wood and stone carving, metalwares, firearms, baskets, musical instruments, prints, and paintings and identifies craftsmen working in all of these fields. One chapter is devoted to the objects the immigrants brought with them from the Old World. Added to this new printing of The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri is a touching and informative introduction by Adolf E. Schroeder. Schroeder's long friendship with Charles van Ravenswaay allows him to reflect on the vast contributions this author made to our knowledge of Missouri's German culture. Everyone interested in architecture, crafts, or Missouriana will find this book indispensable as they savor van Ravenswaay's excellent presentation of the craftsmen and their products against the background of the aspirations and folkways of a distinctive culture.
Author: Pamela Haag Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465098568 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 530
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Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation. Or so we're told. In The Gunning of America, historian Pamela Haag overturns this conventional wisdom. American gun culture, she argues, developed not because the gun was exceptional, but precisely because it was not: guns proliferated in America because throughout most of the nation's history, they were perceived as an unexceptional commodity, no different than buttons or typewriters. Focusing on the history of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, one of the most iconic arms manufacturers in America, Haag challenges many basic assumptions of how and when America became a gun culture. Under the leadership of Oliver Winchester and his heirs, the company used aggressive, sometimes ingenious sales and marketing techniques to create new markets for their product. Guns have never "sold themselves"; rather, through advertising and innovative distribution campaigns, the gun industry did. Through the meticulous examination of gun industry archives, Haag challenges the myth of a primal bond between Americans and their firearms. Over the course of its 150 year history, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company sold over 8 million guns. But Oliver Winchester-a shirtmaker in his previous career-had no apparent qualms about a life spent arming America. His daughter-in-law Sarah Winchester was a different story. Legend holds that Sarah was haunted by what she considered a vast blood fortune, and became convinced that the ghosts of rifle victims were haunting her. She channeled much of her inheritance, and her conflicted conscience, into a monstrous estate now known as the Winchester Mystery House, where she sought refuge from this ever-expanding army of phantoms. In this provocative and deeply-researched work of narrative history, Haag fundamentally revises the history of arms in America, and in so doing explodes the clichéthat have created and sustained our lethal gun culture.
Author: J. R. Roberts
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Author: Bancroft Library
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities
Author: Alexander Rose
Author: Charles Van Ravenswaay
Author: Pamela Haag