Author : Charles E. Hanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Pistols
ISBN : OCLC:1381543500
The Plains Rifle
Charles E. Hanson
The Plains Rifle
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The Plains Rifle
Charles E. Hanson
Author : Charles E. Hanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Pistols
ISBN : LCCN:50273594
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The Black Powder Plainsman
Randy Smith
Author : Randy Smith
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781620874196
The Black Powder Plainsman by Randy Smith Pdf
The Black Powder Plainsman provides a wealth of information on muzzleloading and the history of the Plainsmen. The author explores the lives and roles of women, Plainsmen relations with the Native Americans, and the current status of the hobby of muzzleloading, along with many other topics. He also shares advice on how to get involved in historical reenactments and how to preserve the values of the early Plainsmen. Hunting techniques with muzzleloading rifles are also explored.
Guns on the Early Frontiers
Carl Parcher Russell
Author : Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803289030
Guns on the Early Frontiers by Carl Parcher Russell Pdf
"Here is a book for the historian, the student, the gun collector or aficionado. . . . It approaches understatement to call Guns on the Early Frontiers an outstanding contribution to firearms literature. It sets its own standard."--New York Times. "A Glossary of Gun Terms, ample footnotes most skillfully arranged and illustrations beyond the dreams of avarice complement the text, which achieves the miracle of scholarship without tedium."--W.H. Hutchinson, San Francisco Chronicle. "Not the least interesting portions of the book are the notes and glossary and the excellent bibliography. Here [is] a book designed primarily for the serious collector or gun historian, but whose readable style should appeal even to the casual amateur. The collecting of old guns, whether privately or by a public institution, involves a certain responsibility. These guns, whose history is inextricably linked with the history of settlement, require something more than careful preservations. They require--and the present volume goes far to supply--accurate documentation."--Canadian Historical Review. Carl P. Russell, a leading authority on firearms of the American frontier, was coordinator of planning for the science and history museums and other interpretive facilities of the National Park Service in the Western United States.
Complete Book of Rifles And Shotguns
Jack O'Connor
Author : Jack O'Connor
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786258007
Complete Book of Rifles And Shotguns by Jack O'Connor Pdf
A comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to modern sporting rifles and how to use them, cartridges for small, medium and big game, barrels, stocks, sights, scopes, shooting techniques, where to hit them, modern shotguns and how to use them, double, pump, automatic, shotgun stocks, shells, chokes, care of your shotgun, history of sporting rifles and shotguns, complete glossary, PLUS Jack O’Connor’s Seven Lesson “How to Shoot Course”.
Guns on the Early Frontiers
Carl P. Russell
Author : Carl P. Russell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486140230
Guns on the Early Frontiers by Carl P. Russell Pdf
DIVThoroughly 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. /div
Firearms of the Texas Rangers
Doug Dukes
Author : Doug Dukes
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574418194
Firearms of the Texas Rangers by Doug Dukes Pdf
From their founding in the 1820s up to the modern age, the Texas Rangers have shown the ability to adapt and survive. Part of that survival depended on their use of firearms. The evolving technology of these weapons often determined the effectiveness of these early day Rangers. John Coffee “Jack” Hays and Samuel Walker would leave their mark on the Rangers by incorporating new technology which allowed them to alter tactics when confronting their adversaries. The Frontier Battalion was created at about the same time as the Colt Peacemaker and the Winchester 73—these were the guns that “won the West.” Firearms of the Texas Rangers, with more than 180 photographs, tells the history of the Texas Rangers primarily through the use of their firearms. Author Doug Dukes narrates famous episodes in Ranger history, including Jack Hays and the Paterson, the Walker Colt, the McCulloch Colt Revolver (smuggled through the Union blockade during the Civil War), and the Frontier Battalion and their use of the Colt Peacemaker and Winchester and Sharps carbines. Readers will delight in learning of Frank Hamer’s marksmanship with his Colt Single Action Army and his Remington, along with Captain J.W. McCormick and his two .45 Colt pistols, complete with photos. Whether it was a Ranger in 1844 with his Paterson on patrol for Indians north of San Antonio, or a Ranger in 2016 with his LaRue 7.62 rifle working the Rio Grande looking for smugglers and terrorists, the technology may have changed, but the gritty job of the Rangers has not.
The Hawken Rifle
Charles E. Hanson
Author : Charles E. Hanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Hawken rifle
ISBN : 0912611030
The Hawken Rifle by Charles E. Hanson Pdf
Changing Military Patterns of the Great Plains Indians (17th Century Through Early 19th Century)
Frank Raymond Secoy
Author : Frank Raymond Secoy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803292090
Changing Military Patterns of the Great Plains Indians (17th Century Through Early 19th Century) by Frank Raymond Secoy Pdf
Frank Raymond Secoy wrote this classic work while at Columbia University in the early 1950s. In his introduction, John C. Ewers considers the influence of Secoy's book on scholars since its original publication in 1953. Ethnologist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, Ewers is the author of The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture (1955), Blackfeet: Their Art and Culture (1987), and other works.
The Black Powder Plainsman
Randy Smith
Author : Randy Smith
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781616082864
The Black Powder Plainsman by Randy Smith Pdf
The Black Powder Plainsman provides a wealth of information on muzzleloading and the history of the Plainsmen. The author explores the lives and roles of women, Plainsmen relations with the Native Americans, and the current status of the hobby of muzzleloading, along with many other topics. He also shares advice on how to get involved in historical reenactments and how to preserve the values of the early Plainsmen. Hunting techniques with muzzleloading rifles are also explored.
Safari Rifles
Craig Boddington
Author : Craig Boddington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0940143496
Safari Rifles by Craig Boddington Pdf
A modern day classic that covers the entire subject of what guns to take on todays safari. Covers types of actions, caliber's, premium bullets, and sighting equipment.
50 Guns That Changed America
Bruce Wexler
Author : Bruce Wexler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781510770560
50 Guns That Changed America by Bruce Wexler Pdf
The History of America—And Our Guns The history of the United States is, like it or not, interwoven with the history of firearms. The young colony needed technologically advanced arms to hunt for food for survival and to maintain a secure base in the face of Native American opposition to European settlers. As the Vikings discovered several centuries earlier, the Indians were tough opponents expert in the use of bladed weapons and bows. The advent of firearms gave European settlers an advantage, although it was only a matter of time until the Native Americans gained access to firearms themselves. Ironically, this was often through unscrupulous white traders. Because these superior weapons gained them their freedom, the principle of the right to bear arms remains etched into the American psyche to this day. Since then, the US has been through a terrible Civil War, at which time many different guns were invented and deployed against brother Americans, each one playing a part in the eventual outcome of the war. After the Civil War came a period of frontier establishment when the country consolidated itself from coast to coast. The outside world knows this best as the Wild West, and again guns played a big part in civilizing unruly parts of the nation. Two world wars also tested America's ingenuity in ensuring that its troops were competitively armed. The invention of automatic weapons by John M. Browning made this a reality. In the post Second World War period the country has had to fight its way through Korea, Vietnam, and numerous other conflicts in the Middle East and Asia. Gun development has not stood still at any time in United States history, and this book illustrates fifty examples that form essential parts of that story. 50 Guns That Changed America will explore the most significant American weapons from the early days of firepower to the amazing modern guns in use today, including: Simeon North/Hall pistol Dimick plains rifle Spencer carbine rifle Winchester Model 1866 Smith & Wesson Army revolver Colt Peacemaker M60 machine gun ArmaLite AR-18 machine gun Each firearm is illustrated in full color with archive photography of the manufacturers and the guns in action where possible.
Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men
Carl P. Russell
Author : Carl P. Russell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626369290
Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men by Carl P. Russell Pdf
This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and tools is also a lively history. The era of the mountain man is distinct in American history, and Russell’s exhaustive coverage on the guns, traps, knives, axes, and other iron tools of this era, along with meticulous appendices, is astonishing. The result of thirty-five years of painstaking research, this is the definitive guide to the tools of the mountain men.
Battles of the Red River War
J. Brett Cruse
Author : J. Brett Cruse
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623491529
Battles of the Red River War by J. Brett Cruse Pdf
Battles of the Red River War unearths a long-buried record of the collision of two cultures. In 1874, U.S. forces led by Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie carried out a surprise attack on several Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa bands that had taken refuge in the Palo Duro Canyon of the Texas panhandle and destroyed their winter stores and horses. After this devastating loss, many of these Indians returned to their reservations and effectively brought to a close what has come to be known as the Red River War, a campaign carried out by the U.S. Army during 1874 as a result of Indian attacks on white settlers in the region. After this operation, the Southern Plains Indians would never again pose a coherent threat to whites’ expansion and settlement across their ancestral homelands. Until now, the few historians who have undertaken to tell the story of the Red River War have had to rely on the official records of the battles and a handful of extant accounts, letters, and journals of the U.S. Army participants. Starting in 1998, J. Brett Cruse, under the auspices of the Texas Historical Commission, conducted archeological investigations at six battle sites. In the artifacts they unearthed, Cruse and his teams found clues that would both correct and complete the written records and aid understanding of the Indian perspectives on this clash of cultures. Including a chapter on historiography and archival research by Martha Doty Freeman and an analysis of cartridges and bullets by Douglas D. Scott, this rigorously researched and lavishly illustrated work will commend itself to archeologists, military historians and scientists, and students and scholars of the Westward Expansion.
Fort Larned
Randy D. Smith
Author : Randy D. Smith
Publisher : Bitingduck Press LLC
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780917990335
Fort Larned by Randy D. Smith Pdf
From his beginnings as a Civil War army scout and later as a celebrated buffalo hunter, lawman, and rancher Lane Collier symbolizes the tenacity and resourcefulness of the North American plains frontiersman during the second half of the 19th century. Such men clawed a living and built a civilization from seemingly barren grasslands and hostile prairie where only vast herds of bison and the Indian reigned supreme for centuries.