Guns of the Old West (The Firearms Classics Library)

306 pp. Red leather boards with gilt titles on spine, gilt decor on boards, and gilt page ridges. CONTENTS: 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 Derringer; The Voice of the Derringer: Imitations, Counterfeits, and Competitors of Derringer'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.