Author: WILSON, R. L.
Title: The Peacemakers Arms and Adventure in the American West. Photography by Peter Beard, G. Allan Brown, Susan Einstein, and Douglas Sandberg.
Description: First Edition; Oblong Demy 4to; pp. viii, 392; illustrated endpapers, illustrated frontispiece, text illustrated with numerous coloured and b/w. photographs, bibliography, index, bound in original maroon cloth, title lettered in silver on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. new York; Random House; 1992. At a time when the American Indians had relatively primitive weapons, this book shows the mechanical marvels created by Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin, Sharps, Henry Deringer, Hawken, the U.S. armouries and subcontractors, and small-shop private gunmakers, as well as the ubiquitous Bowie knife and more - many elegantly embellished, some even by Tiffany & Co.
Keywords: gmil guns gun american west indian general military history
Title: The Peacemakers Arms and Adventure in the American West. Photography by Peter Beard, G. Allan Brown, Susan Einstein, and Douglas Sandberg.
Description: First Edition; Oblong Demy 4to; pp. viii, 392; illustrated endpapers, illustrated frontispiece, text illustrated with numerous coloured and b/w. photographs, bibliography, index, bound in original maroon cloth, title lettered in silver on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. new York; Random House; 1992. At a time when the American Indians had relatively primitive weapons, this book shows the mechanical marvels created by Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin, Sharps, Henry Deringer, Hawken, the U.S. armouries and subcontractors, and small-shop private gunmakers, as well as the ubiquitous Bowie knife and more - many elegantly embellished, some even by Tiffany & Co.
Keywords: gmil guns gun american west indian general military history
Price: AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 27.67 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 112962
- Book number: 112962