Guns on the Early Frontiers - From Colonial Times to the Years of the Western Fur Trade

Klappentext Thoroughly documented reference identifies guns used in America during eastern settlement and westward expansion. The highly readable survey describes the traders, trappers, soldiers, and Native Americans who used and sold weapons as well as those who made them. 58 rare illustrations depict everything from antique muskets and revolving pistols to bullet molds and powder horns. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter I Arming the American Indian The French Trade in Guns The Dutch and the Swedes The Bid Made by Spain The English Trade Effects of the American Revolution upon the Distribution of Guns to Indians Indian Guns in the United StatesChapter II Personal Weapons of the Traders and Trappers Muskets Blunderbusses Rifles Pistols Gunsmiths and GunsmithingChapter III Trade Muskets and Rifles Supplied to the Indians The Trade Gun Rifles Supplied to IndiansChapter IV Military Arms of the Fur-Trade Period Military Muskets Musketoons and Carbines United States Rifles United States PistolsChapter V Powder, Ball, and Accessories Gunpowder Powder Containers Leaden Missiles Gunflints Percussion Caps Cartridges Cartridge Boxes Gun WormsChapter VI Small Cannon of the Traders and the Military Swivel Guns Small Cannon Mounted on Boats Swivel Guns of the Musket Type Wheeled Cannon in the Fur Fields Frémont's Cannon Cannon in the Wilderness FortsAcknowledgmentsFinding ListNotesGlossary of Gun TermsBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Carl P. Russell, Carl Parcher Russell
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.2005
• EAN: 9780486436814
• ISBN: 978-0-486-43681-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor; Dover Books on Americana; Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor; Dover Books on Americana
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