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Author: National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806137315 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 266
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Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this premier museum in Oklahoma City, offering both an institutional history and a captivating collection of photographs representing its extensive holdings. Simultaneous.
Author: National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806137315 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this premier museum in Oklahoma City, offering both an institutional history and a captivating collection of photographs representing its extensive holdings. Simultaneous.
Author: Thomas Henshaw Publisher: Academic Learning Company LLC ISBN: 9780832905032 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 286
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Photographs and text present the history of the Winchester firearm, including their rifles, shotguns and revolvers beginning in 1866 to 1992.
Author: Richard C. Rattenbury Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806147792 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 245
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The history of American firearms is inseparable from the history of the United States, for firearms have played crucial roles in the nation’s founding, westward expansion, and industrial, economic, and cultural development. This history unfolds in compelling words and images in A Legacy in Arms, a volume that draws upon the collections of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City to trace the business and art of gun making from the early national period to the turn of the twentieth century. With more than 200 images—almost all in full color—A Legacy in Arms not only documents the inspiration and innovation of arms makers from individual artisans to mass producers, but also describes the development of decorative expression in the gun maker’s art. In an account both entertaining and enlightening, Richard C. Rattenbury details the development of commercial arms making, from the genesis of the Kentucky rifle to the arms of such iconic manufacturers as Colt, Remington, Smith & Wesson, Sharps, Marlin, and Winchester. Into this narrative he weaves the particulars of design evolution and the impact of mass production via the “American System.” The accompanying photographs and illustrations stand as eloquent testimony to the range and richness of the gun maker's craft—and its rightful place in the story of American industry and culture.
Author: David Miller Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1510756825 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 406
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A complete compendium of rifles and shotguns through the ages. A "rifled" firearm is one in which the projectile is made to spin as it travels up the bore. The term "rifle," however, was originally applied to muskets to differentiate them from the earlier smoothbore weapons and is used today to designate the infantryman's personal weapon, fired from the shoulder or the hip, or, in some modern weapons, from a bipod. The rifle has also been used by sportsmen to kill larger game and was also used as a working tool by cowboys and trappers during the period of Western Expansion. It progressed from being a muzzle-loader to a breechloading, bolt-operated weapon, then to a semi-automatic weapon, and finally to a lightweight "assault rifle." The emphasis throughout these developments has been in increasing the rate of fire, reducing the weight and making the weapons more accurate, simpler to fire, more reliable, and easier to maintain. The shotgun is a smoothbore weapon originally developed as a hunting device for killing fast moving, flying or running prey. Loaded with shot (many small projectiles) the chances of hitting a moving target was greatly enhanced. Like the rifle, the shotgun has undergone similar progression from muzzle-loader to breechloader, bolt action, and finally semi-automatic mode. The weapon has also seen military use in trench warfare and special operations as well as riot suppression by the police. The Illustrated Catalog of Rifles and Shotguns shows the reader over 500 longarms of all types form the early flintlocks of the revolutionary period, the percussion cap rifles and repeaters of the Civil War, the famous rifles and shotguns of the Wild West, the standard infantry rifles of two World Wars, to the present day with Assault Rifles, and combat shotguns, together with state-of-the-art sporting rifles and shotguns. Each entry has a color photo along with a description and a technical specification. It is arranged in alphabetical order within five historical periods: Historic, Civil War, The Frontier, Two World Wars, and Modern, plus a separate comprehensive Shotgun section.
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: Edmund E. Lewis Publisher: Andrew Mowbray Incorporated, Publishers ISBN: 9781931464413 Category : Winchester firearms Languages : en Pages : 176
Author: Rajiv Khandelwal Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing ISBN: 9360490865 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 272
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"A Summer Spree is a thriller. Exciting, captivating, and entertaining. There is friendship, romance, jealousy, high spirited challenges to create a war game that generates unending chaos in the minds of the four main characters. The story gently unfolds the pangs of adolescence, and romantic encounters, even as they struggle to overcome their fears and differences. The novel is packed with a storehouse of nostalgic memories with a touch of the exotic as the characters chase their dreams even while on a frightening adventure on a jungle safari, their tense emotional encounter with a tiger’s burning eyes staring into their faces … Catch the spirit of this foursome and delve into the mysterious world of this action-packed, rip-roaring, and gripping electrifying tale written in the stream of consciousness manner. "
Author: National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
Author: National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
Author: Thomas Henshaw
Author: Richard C. Rattenbury
Author: David Miller
Author: Alexander Rose
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Author: Edmund Curll
Author: Edmund Curll
Author: Edmund E. Lewis
Author: Rajiv Khandelwal