When Meriwether Lewis began shopping for supplies and firearms to take on the Corps of Discovery’s journey west, his first stop was a federal arsenal. For the

When Meriwether Lewis began shopping for supplies and firearms to take on the Corps of Discovery’s journey west, his first stop was a federal arsenal. For the

When the Lewis and Clark Expedition crossed a continent in 1803 to 1806, they started out in U.S. Army uniforms, which gradually had to be replaced with simple

An introduction to the artillery, poison gas, guns, tanks, and U-boats and torpedoes used in World War I.

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