Guns on the Early Frontiers (eBook)

Carl P. Russell (Autor)

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2012
432 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-14023-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Thoroughly 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.

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This thoroughly documented, authoritative, and highly readable book not only details the weapons used during the settlement and westward expansion of America but also describes their use by fur traders, trappers, soldiers, and Native Americans. The result is a lively historical examination of the momentous events that were strongly influenced by the gun trade.The text is augmented and enriched throughout with clearly identified illustrations of everything from antique muskets, flintlocks, repeating rifles, and howitzers to bullet molds, powder horns, and other firearm accessories.“An outstanding contribution to firearms literature. It sets its own standard.” — The New York Times.“For collectors, museum curators, archaeologist-historians, this book is — in its field — an essential contribution.” — Kirkus.“A Glossary of Gun Terms, ample footnotes most skillfully arranged, and illustrations … complement the text which achieves the miracle of scholarship without tedium.” — San Francisco Chronicle.

Inhalt

Chapter I Arming the American Indian The French Trade in Guns The Dutch and the Swedes The Bid Made by Spain The English Trade Effects of the American Revolution upon the Distribution of Guns to Indians Indian Guns in the United StatesChapter II Personal Weapons of the Traders and Trappers Muskets Blunderbusses Rifles Pistols Gunsmiths and GunsmithingChapter III Trade Muskets and Rifles Supplied to the Indians The Trade Gun Rifles Supplied to IndiansChapter IV Military Arms of the Fur-Trade Period Military Muskets Musketoons and Carbines United States Rifles United States PistolsChapter V Powder, Ball, and Accessories Gunpowder Powder Containers Leaden Missiles Gunflints Percussion Caps Cartridges Cartridge Boxes Gun WormsChapter VI Small Cannon of the Traders and the Military Swivel Guns Small Cannon Mounted on Boats Swivel Guns of the Musket Type Wheeled Cannon in the Fur Fields Frémont's Cannon Cannon in the Wilderness FortsAcknowledgmentsFinding ListNotesGlossary of Gun TermsBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor
• Zusatzinfo: 57 figs, plus frontispiece, endpapers
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Gewicht: 454 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: aesthetically pleasing • America • american fur • American Revolution • Ammunition • anti-tank weapons • artillery • automatic weapons • Barrel • books on american furs • books on american revolutions • books on artilleries • books on automatic weapons • books on cannons • books on cartridges • books on century ships • books on coffee tables • books on colonial periods • books on color photos • books on colts • books on crusades • books on cylinders • books on decors • books on design features • books on dirty harries • books on flintlocks • books on gold rushes • books on gun makers • books on gun powders • books on gunsmiths • books on holsters • books on identifications • books on interiors • books on john jacob • books on mauser • books on military weapons • books on modern weapons • books on neumann • books on pikes • books on prints • books on revolutionary wars • books on revolvers • books on single actions • books on uniforms • cannons • cartridges • century ship • coffee table • coffee-table sized • Collectors • Colonial Period • color photos • Colt • Craftsmanship • Crusades • Cylinder • decor • design features • Dirty Harry • flintlocks • glossy • Gold rush • gun enthusiast • gun makers • gun powder • Gunpowder • Guns • gunsmiths • highly-detailed • historical factoids • Holster • iconic • Identification • informational paragraph • Interior • john jacob • matchlocks • Mauser • mechanisms • military weapons • model 29 • modern weapons • muskets • Neumann • Photo • pictorial • pikes • pistols • prints • Revolutionary War • revolvers • Rifles • single action • Smithsonian • smokeless powder • sub-machine • swords • uniforms • Weapon • weaponry • Wesson
• ISBN-10: 0-486-14023-7 / 0486140237
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-14023-0 / 9780486140230