Hal Herring

Famous Firearms of the Old West (eBook, ePUB)

From Wild Bill Hickok's Colt Revolvers To Geronimo''s Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill and from Chief Joseph to Geronimo, the most famous guns in the West and the history behind them



More than a few of the actual guns once in the hands of the heroes and villains of America's Old West still exist, housed in a dozen museums across the countryfrom the Model 1866 .44-40 that Chief Joseph famously surrendered to General Miles to Wild Bill Hickok's Colt Model 1851 revolvers; from Buffalo Bill's .50 caliber breechloading needlegun nicknamed Lucrezia Borgia to John Wesley Hardin's 1860 model .44 SA revolvers.

Famous Firearms of the Old West follows the life stories of a dozen actual pistols, rifles, and shotguns instrumental in shaping America's historyusing them as entrées into the lives of the shooters themselves. This is a vivid portrait of famous Western characters, paired with the guns they used to make themselves famous or, as the case may be, infamous. It is a must for anyone interested in the history and lore of the Wild West, gun hobbyists, and tourists seeking a museum experience with a difference.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: TwoDot
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461748571
• Artikelnr.: 44909164

Autorenporträt

Hal Herring is a contributing editor at Field and Stream and an editor-at-large for the online news magazine newwest.net. His fiction, journalism, and essays have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and the Economist.

Inhaltsangabe

(1) Billy the Kid's 1873 Winchester that killed Buckshot Roberts (2) John
Wesley Hardin's 1860 Model. 44 SA revolvers (3) Wild Bill Hickock's Smith &
Wesson single action #2 Army revolvers (4) Tom Horn's classic .30-30 lever
action Winchester (5) Buffalo Bill Cody's .50 caliber breechloading needle
gun, nicknamed "Lucretia Borgia" (6) Ned Christie's .30-30 Winchester (7)
Chief Joseph's surrender gun, model 1866 .44 rimfire (8) Joseph Smith's
Allen pepperbox and English pocket pistol (9) Custer's .50-80 rolling block
rifle (10) Geronimo's .44 Spencer repeater (11) John Browne's Sharp's (12)
Cole Younger's Colt .44 conversions

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