Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West by Worman, Charles G.
Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West by Worman, Charles G.

Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West

The gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement...
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Author: Charles G. Worman
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Language: English
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Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West by Worman, Charles G.

Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West

$484.56
Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West by Worman, Charles G.

Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West

$484.56
Author: Charles G. Worman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

The gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-Mississippi West. It provided food for the cooking pot as well as protection against two- or four-legged marauders. As the century progressed, firearms also provided various forms of recreation for both men and women, primarily target and competition shooting.

Of course the employment of the gun, whether for good or evil, depended upon the user. The men and women who lived the nineteenth-century western experience sometimes described in detail the role firearms played in their lives. Such accounts included a trapper in the 1830s, a woman crossing the plains by wagon in the 1850s, a drover ("cowboy" in modern terminology) enduring the dangers of a long cattle drive, a professional hunter engaged in the slaughter of the once seemingly endless herds of bison, or a soldier campaigning against American Indians.

Each account adds to our knowledge of firearms and our awareness of the struggle faced by those who were a part of the western experience. Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather describes the gun's impact on the lives of those in the West--men and women, whites and American Indians--using their own words to tell that story wherever possible.



Author: Charles G. Worman
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 12/15/2005
Pages: 536
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.53lbs
Size: 12.24h x 9.78w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780826335937

About the Author
Worman, Charles G.: - Charles G. Worman spent more than thirty years with the National Museum of the U. S. Air Force, retiring as deputy director. He has written extensively on antique guns, is a fellow of the Company of Military Historians, and has served as a firearms consultant to museums.
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