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Guns of the Western Indian War

Author : R. Stephen Dorsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963120854
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Guns of the Western Indian War written by R. Stephen Dorsey and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time under one cover and in its second printing, the full story of the guns and ammunitions that made western history in the turbulent period of 1865-1890. Subjects covered in detail include: Authentic captured and surrendered Indian guns; Guns of the Calvary and Infantry; Original Ordnance Dept. reports on Indian guns, Winchesters and Sharps; Field reports of the conditions and serial numbers of guns in the hands of troops; Archaeological evidence of the Little Bighorn and Rifles in the cavalry and much more. This book is a key reference for collectors and historians on the martial arms of the Frontier and authentic Indian guns. 215 photos of the guns of Western history.

Thundersticks

Author : David J. Silverman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674974743
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Thundersticks written by David J. Silverman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America’s indigenous peoples—a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians’ historical relationship with guns, arguing against the notion that they prized these weapons more for the pyrotechnic terror guns inspired than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another. The smoothbore, flintlock musket was Indians’ stock firearm, and its destructive potential transformed their lives. For the deer hunters east of the Mississippi, the gun evolved into an essential hunting tool. Most importantly, well-armed tribes were able to capture and enslave their neighbors, plunder wealth, and conquer territory. Arms races erupted across North America, intensifying intertribal rivalries and solidifying the importance of firearms in Indian politics and culture. Though American tribes grew dependent on guns manufactured in Europe and the United States, their dependence never prevented them from rising up against Euro-American power. The Seminoles, Blackfeet, Lakotas, and others remained formidably armed right up to the time of their subjugation. Far from being a Trojan horse for colonialism, firearms empowered American Indians to pursue their interests and defend their political and economic autonomy over two centuries.

Guns at the Forks

Author : Walter O'Meara
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822971283
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Guns at the Forks written by Walter O'Meara and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2005-06-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guns at the Forks is a special reissue commemorating the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War. In a spirited, intelligent, and informative history, O'Meara tells the story of five successive forts, particularly Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt, and the dramatic part they played in the war between 1750 and 1760. He describes Washington's capitulation at Fort Necessity, Braddock's defeat at the Monongahela, and Forbes's successful campaign to retake Fort Duquesne. Although most of the action in the book takes place at the strategically important forks of the Ohio, where present-day Pittsburgh stands, O'Meara's narrative relates the two forts to the larger story of the French and Indian War and elucidates their roles in sparking a global conflict that altered the course of world events and decided the fate of empires.

Of Sorts for Provincials

Author : Jim Mullins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976579731
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Of Sorts for Provincials written by Jim Mullins and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Firearms in the American West, 1700-1900

Author : Martin Pegler
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Firearms in the American West, 1700-1900 written by Martin Pegler and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two hundred years the great wilderness of the American West was being opened up and slowly destroyed by settlers from the east. Their prime tool was the gun, and the longarm and pistol have achieved legendary status in the folklore of the Wild West. Firearms of the American West tells the story of the guns used in the West during this period, which included the Indian Wars, the Civil War and the Gold Rushes. Copiously illustrated, no Western fan or gun enthusiast will want to be without this book.

Firearms of the American West, 1866-1894

Author : Louis A. Garavaglia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Firearms of the American West, 1866-1894 written by Louis A. Garavaglia and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of a two-part encyclopedic reference to firearms in the 19th-century American West, offering both technical information and historical narrative. Covering the period from the close of the Civil War to the modern period, it draws on advertisements from newspapers, catalogues, and other primary sources to discuss the military and civilian firearms used in the settling of the West, including rifles, shotguns, and handguns, as well as the guns used by the Native Americans. Illustrated with some 500 photographs of the weapons and of the people who used them. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Guns on the Early Frontiers

Author : Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803238572
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Guns on the Early Frontiers written by Carl Parcher Russell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

War in the West

Author : Don Rickey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book War in the West written by Don Rickey and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Earth Is Weeping

Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958051
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Earth Is Weeping written by Peter Cozzens and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this “sweeping work of narrative history” (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the West was won—and lost. After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the intertribal strife over whether to fight or make peace; explores the dreary, squalid lives of frontier soldiers and the imperatives of the Indian warrior culture; and describes the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. In dramatically relating bloody and tragic events as varied as Wounded Knee, the Nez Perce War, the Sierra Madre campaign, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters, including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of officers, soldiers, and Indian agents, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud and the warriors they led. The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today.

A Terrible Glory

Author : James Donovan
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316029114
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Terrible Glory written by James Donovan and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-03-24 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself. In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn," George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public uproar, and those in positions of power promptly began to point fingers in order to avoid responsibility. Custer, who was conveniently dead, took the brunt of the blame. The truth, however, was far more complex. A Terrible Glory is the first book to relate the entire story of this endlessly fascinating battle, and the first to call upon all the significant research and findings of the past twenty-five years -- which have changed significantly how this controversial event is perceived. Furthermore, it is the first book to bring to light the details of the U.S. Army cover-up -- and unravel one of the greatest mysteries in U.S. military history. Scrupulously researched, A Teribble Glory will stand as a landmark work. Brimming with authentic detail and an unforgettable cast of characters -- from Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse to Ulysses Grant and Custer himself -- this is history with the sweep of a great novel.

Guns on the Early Frontiers

Author : Carl P. Russell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140237
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Guns on the Early Frontiers written by Carl P. Russell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThoroughly documented reference identifies guns used in America during eastern settlement and westward expansion. The highly readable survey describes those who used and sold weapons as well as those who made them. 58 rare illustrations. /div

Guns of the Old West

Author : Dean K. Boorman
Publisher : Salamander Books
ISBN 13 : 9781840651737
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Guns of the Old West written by Dean K. Boorman and published by Salamander Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores development of the gun and its use in the American West, from the frontiersmen and their muskets, through its military service in the wars against Mexico, against Native American tribes, and throughout the Civil War.

The Guns That Won the West

Author : John Walter
Publisher : Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 9781853676925
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book The Guns That Won the West written by John Walter and published by Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a wide range of firearms, from the smallest pistol to the rifles of the buffalo hunters used by plainsmen and settlers, gamblers and engineers, Native Americans and the soldiers of the United States Army. Meticulously researched by a foremost authority on firearms, this is an indispensable guide to the opening of the American West. John Walter examines pre-Civil War mass production and technical advances, and the effect of readily available post-war surplus weapons on life in the Midwest. He traces the swift expansion of the West, which led to a perpetual struggle against the Native Americans and brought the United States Army in its wake. John Walter also examines whether law was dispensed at the point of a gun and whether it was the Colt or the Winchester that reigned supreme at the OK Corral. Describing particular Western desperadoes and the most popular Wild West firearms, he goes on to investigate how gun design influenced use and use influenced design. With detailed descriptions and performance evaluations of all the leading firearms, this book is an essential reference guide which cuts away the myth and legend and reveals the truth behind the guns, and the men who used them, in the heyday of the West.

Firearms of the American West, 1803-1865

Author : Louis A. Garavaglia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Firearms of the American West, 1803-1865 written by Louis A. Garavaglia and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1803 Lewis and Clark set out on their epic expedition across the American wilderness west of the Mississippi, armed with the typical weapon of their day, the single-shot muzzle-loading rifle. By 1865, a variety of breech-loading and repeating arms had been invented there were both easier to use and more accurate. This encyclopaedic study, part one of a two-part book, traces the development and uses of firearms on the frontier during that period, drawing on primary sources such as correspondence and diaries, newspaper accounts, government reports, and patent materials. Then, as now, most of the advances in weaponry were made in response to the military's needs, becoming available somewhat later to civilians, and then to Indians. The authors thoroughly cover the refinements and adaptations of weapons for employ by these three groups and by explorers and trappers, describing in detail each gun, its modifications, operations, and uses. In many ways the history of firearms on the frontier parallels the history of the development of the West.

Guns on the Early Frontiers

Author : Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803289031
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Guns on the Early Frontiers written by Carl Parcher Russell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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, San Francisco Chronicle. "Not the least interesting portions of the book are the notes and glossary and the excellent bibliography. Here [is] a book designed primarily for the serious collector or gun historian, but whose readable style should appeal even to the casual amateur. The collecting of old guns, whether privately or by a public institution, involves a certain responsibility. These guns, whose history is inextricably linked with the history of settlement, require something more than careful preservations. They require--and the present volume goes far to supply--accurate documentation."--Canadian Historical Review. Carl P. Russell, a leading authority on firearms of the American frontier, was coordinator of planning for the science and history museums and other interpretive facilities of the National Park Service in the Western United States.

Valley of the Guns

Author : Eduardo Obregón Pagán
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806162538
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Valley of the Guns written by Eduardo Obregón Pagán and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and one was missing, never to be found. Valley of the Guns explores the reasons for the violence that engulfed the settlement, turning neighbors, families, and friends against one another. While popular historians and novelists have long been captivated by the story, the Pleasant Valley War has more recently attracted the attention of scholars interested in examining the underlying causes of western violence. In this book, author Eduardo Obregón Pagán explores how geography and demographics aligned to create an unstable settlement subject to the constant threat of Apache raids. The fear of surprise attack by day and the theft of livestock by night prompted settlers to shape their lives around the expectation of sudden violence. As the forces of progress strained natural resources, conflict grew between local ranchers and cowboys hired by ranching corporations. Mixed-race property owners found themselves fighting white cowboys to keep their land. In addition, territorial law enforcement officers were outsiders to the community and approached every suspect fully armed and ready to shoot. The combination of unrelenting danger, its accompanying stress, and an abundance of firearms proved deadly. Drawing from history, geography, cultural studies, and trauma studies, Pagán uses the story of Pleasant Valley to demonstrate a new way of looking at the settlement of the West. Writing in a vivid narrative style and employing rigorous scholarship, he creatively explores the role of trauma in shaping the lives and decisions of the settlers in Pleasant Valley and offers new insight into the difficulties of survival in an isolated frontier community.

Encyclopedia of Indian Wars

Author : Gregory Michno
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780878424689
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Indian Wars written by Gregory Michno and published by Mountain Press Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed independent history scholar Gregory Michno has created a chronological listing of every significant fight between Indians and the United States Army, as well as better-known Indian battles with civilian emigrants. This detailed study is more tha