Guns of the Old West An Illustrated Reference Guide to Antique Firearms

Name: Guns of the Old West An Illustrated Reference Guide to Antique Firearms
Price: 17.25 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781620873625

ISBN-10: 1620873621

ISBN-13: 9781620873625

Edition: N/A

Authors: Charles Edward Chapel

List price: $16.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

1 new & used from $17.25

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Written by one of the foremost firearms experts of the twentieth century, Charles Edward Chapel’s 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, it’s also fascinating historical…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Charles Edward Chapel was born in Iowa in 1904. Graduating from the Naval Academy at Annapolis and serving in the Marine Corps, he was a prolific writer, publishing thousands of articles on subjects such as police science, aviation, and firearms. One of the nation's most active gun writers, he published nearly a dozen books on the subject. Guns of the Old West is considered his greatest work. Chapel died in 1967.



Foreword



How Guns Began



The Kentucky Rifle and Pistol Head West



Flintlock Pistols on the Frontier



Musket, Rifle and Carbine: American Martial Shoulder Arms



Pepperboxes: Percussion and Cartridge



Pocket-Sized Death: Development of the Famous Deringer



The Voice of the Derringer: Imitations, Counterfeits and Competitors of Deringer's Pocket Pistol



Twilight of the Derringer: Breech-loading Cartridge Types; the Derringer in Transition



Captain Walker's Gun-Hunt: Early Colt Revolvers



Martial Percussion Hand Guns on the Frontier: U. S. Martial and Secondary Martial Pistols and American Martial Revolvers



Johnny Kept His Gun: Confederate Firearms in the West



Revolving Shoulder Arms and Related Weapons



When the Colt Was King: The Immortal 72 Model Peacemaker, and Others



Gunsmoke Over Powder River: The Winchester Rifle



The Indian Campaigns: U. S. Martial Arms of the Post-Civil War Era



Buffalo Guns and Hunters



The Shotgun Guards the Stage



The Guns of Teddy Roosevelt


Bibliography


Index