Guns on the Early Frontiers: A History of Firearms from Colonial Times Through the Years of the Western Fur Trade

by Carl P. Russell

Book Overview

"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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803289030
• ISBN13: 9780803289031
• Release Date: October 1980
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.4"