This is the second volume of a two-part encyclopedic reference to firearms in the 19th-century American West, offering both technical information and historical

Traces the development of rifles, pistols, carbines, and other weapons and examines the impact of firearms on the history of the West

From Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill and from Chief Joseph to Geronimo, the most famous guns in the West and the history behind them More than a few of the actual gun

For two hundred years the great wilderness of the American West was being opened up and slowly destroyed by settlers from the east. Their prime tool was the gun