Author: E. C. Wilford (Colonel.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Three Lectures Upon the Rifle
Author: E. C. Wilford (Colonel.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Three lectures upon the rifle
Author: Ernest Christian WilfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rifles
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Guns on the Early Frontiers
Author: Carl Parcher RussellPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803289031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
"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.
Guns on the Early Frontiers
Author: Carl P. RussellPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486140237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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
Subject List of Works on Military and Naval Arts
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Americans: The Colonial Experience
Author: Daniel J. BoorstinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307756483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.
Arming the World
Author: Geoffrey S. StewartPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493078593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Arming the World tells the story of the American small arms industry from the early 1800’s through the post-Civil War era. Almost from the beginning, the United States produced arms in new, and radically different, ways, relying upon machinery to mass produce guns when others still made them by hand. Leveraging their technological advantage, American gun-makers produced guns with interchangeable parts and perfected new types of small arms, ranging from revolvers to repeating rifles. The federal government’s staggering purchases of arms during the Civil War stimulated the development of fast-firing breech-loading rifles and metal-cased ammunition. When, in 1865, it became clear that every country in the world had re-equip itself with modern weapons, the Americans had an overwhelming head start. Salesmen from Remington, Winchester, Colt and Smith & Wesson --- and from lesser-known firms, too – traveled the world marketing their guns, dominating – or, perhaps, even inventing – the international arms business. American gun-makers sold rifles and side-arms by the millions and cartridges by the billions to great powers, restive colonies and fading empires alike. Adding a new element to the unstable global balance of power, American gun-makers affected the course of history.
Athenaeum
Author: The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.