Author: Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Guns on the Early Frontiers. A History of Firearms from Colonial Times Through the Years of the Western Fur Trade. [With Illustrations and a Bibliography.].
Author: Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Guns on the Early Frontiers
Author: Carl P. Russell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486140237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486140237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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
Guns on the Early Frontiers
Author: Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803289031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803289031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
"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.
Guns on the Early Frontiers
Author: Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803238572
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803238572
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Guns on the Early Frontiers: A History of Firearms from Colonial Times Through the Years of the Western Fur Trade
Author: Carl P. Russell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616465636
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616465636
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Colonial Frontier Guns
Author: T. M. Hamilton
Publisher: Pioneer Press
ISBN: 9780913150610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Pioneer Press
ISBN: 9780913150610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
FIREARMS IN COLONIAL AMER
Author: M. L. Brown
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Art of the English Trade Gun in North America
Author: Nathan E. Bender
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476632723
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Symbolic ornamentation inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art is a long-standing Western tradition. The author explores the designs of 18th century English gunsmiths who engraved classical ornamental patterns on firearms gifted or traded to American Indians. A system of allegory is found that symbolized the Americas of the New World in general, and that enshrined the American Indian peoples as "noble savages." The same allegorical context was drawn upon for symbols of national liberty in the early American republic. Inadvertently, many of the symbolic designs used on the trade guns strongly resonated with several Native American spiritual traditions.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476632723
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Symbolic ornamentation inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art is a long-standing Western tradition. The author explores the designs of 18th century English gunsmiths who engraved classical ornamental patterns on firearms gifted or traded to American Indians. A system of allegory is found that symbolized the Americas of the New World in general, and that enshrined the American Indian peoples as "noble savages." The same allegorical context was drawn upon for symbols of national liberty in the early American republic. Inadvertently, many of the symbolic designs used on the trade guns strongly resonated with several Native American spiritual traditions.
Great American Guns and Frontier Fighters
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Arming America
Author: Michael A. Bellesiles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932360073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Draws on archival material to challenge popular misconceptions about the American belief system about arms rights, tracing "gun fever" to its European origins while documenting the rarity of firearms in early America as well as the technological advances and events that made guns an integral part of American life. Original.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932360073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Draws on archival material to challenge popular misconceptions about the American belief system about arms rights, tracing "gun fever" to its European origins while documenting the rarity of firearms in early America as well as the technological advances and events that made guns an integral part of American life. Original.