Guns Of The Old West 1st Edition by Charles Edward Chapel 9781510720268 151072026X

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• ISBN 10: 151072026X
• ISBN 13: 9781510720268
• Author: Charles Edward Chapel 

Written by one of the foremost firearms experts of the twentieth century, Charles Edward Chapel’s Guns of the Old West is an exhaustively researched document that not only boasts a significant collection of antique Western guns, but also categorizes the firearms into easy-to-reference sections. Starting with an introductory chapter on the origins of guns and their earliest uses on the frontier, Chapel covers everything from muskets to rifles, pistols to revolvers, and shotguns to martial arms. Three whole chapters are dedicated to the rise and fall of the famous Deringer pistol. And as much as Guns of the Old West is an encyclopedic reference manual, it’s also fascinating historical literature that frames the world in which these guns were used. Buffalo guns and hunters are covered, along with martial arms of the post–Civil War era. The gun collection of famous collector and hunter President Theodore Roosevelt is given its own chapter. Illustrated with nearly 500 illustrations, as well as important artwork from the Western period from artists such as Frederic Remington, Guns of the Old West is an essential work for gun collectors and American history enthusiasts.

Table contents:

I How Guns Began
II The Kentucky Rifle and Pistol Head West
III Flintlock Pistols on the Frontier
IV Musket, Rifle and Carbine: American Martial Shoulder Arms
V Pepperboxes: Percussion and Cartridge
VI Pocket-Sized Death: Development of the Famous Deringer
VII The Voice of the Derringer: Imitations, Counterfeits and Competitors of Deringer’s Pocket Pistol
VIII Twilight of the Derringer: Breech-loading Cartridge Types; the Derringer in Transition
IX Captain Walker’s Gun-Hunt: Early Colt Revolvers
X Martial Percussion Hand Guns on the Frontier: U. S. Martial and Secondary Martial Pistols and American Martial Revolvers
XI Johnny Kept His Gun: Confederate Firearms in the West
XII Revolving Shoulder Arms and Related Weapons
XIII When the Colt Was King: The Immortal ’72 Model Peacemaker, and Others
XIV Gunsmoke Over Powder River: The Winchester Rifle
XV The Indian Campaigns: U. S. Martial Arms of the Post-Civil War Era
XVI Buffalo Guns and Hunters
XVII The Shotgun Guards the Stage
XVIII The Guns of Teddy Roosevelt

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