Guns of the Old West (eBook)

An Illustrated Reference Guide to Antique Firearms

Charles Edward Chapel (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
320 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-2026-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Written by one of the foremost firearms experts of the twentieth century, Charles Edward Chapels 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, its 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 postCivil 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.3.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: 1609 • 19th centuries • Adler • America • american civil • American Frontier • American West • Antique • arming • Assembly • books on american frontiers • books on american wests • books on assemblies • books on colts • books on dennis • books on fredericksburg • books on guns • books on jeff cooper • books on key battles books on sharpsho • books on marine corps • books on pistols • books on regiments • books on single actions • books on snipers • books on wild wests • buckaroo • California • Civil War • Collectibles • Collectors • colorful era • Colt • Confederate • Cowboy • Dennis • Disassembly • Enthusiast • extensively • Firearms • flintlocks • Fredericksburg • Generals • Guns • history buffs • Holster • jeff cooper • Jewelry • key battles • marine corp • marksmen • muskets • northern aggression • Officers • Peacemaker • pictorial history • pistols profusely • plaster • Regiments • re-printed • revolvers • Rifles • sharpshooters • sharpshooting • Shooting • single action • snipers • Spotsylvania • subtle colors • Tactics • uniforms • United States • unknown role • vast topic • Western History • Westerns • west history • Wild West
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-2026-X / 151072026X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-2026-8 / 9781510720268