On t.p.: The handguns, longarms and shotguns of the Gold Rush, the American Civil War, the Wild West and the Armed Forces.

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Covering a wide range of firearms, from the smallest pistol to the rifles of the buffalo hunters used by plainsmen and settlers, gamblers and engineers, Native

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

The Old West has had a powerful impact on the concept of gentlemanly masculinity among Americans. To behave like a gentleman may mean little or much. To spend l