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Gunlore
Firearms, Folkways, and Communities
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781496850935
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
A balanced assessment of gun culture and its folklore in America
Rhetoric and Guns
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CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781646422142
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Utah State University Press
Guns hold a complex place in American culture. Over 30,000 Americans die each year from gun violence, and guns are intimately connected to issues of public health, as is evident whenever a mass shooting...
Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806160511
Pub Date: January 2018
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The mix of arms carried by the expedition extended beyond rifles and muskets to include pistols, knives, espontoons, a cannon, and blunderbusses. Each chapter focuses on one of the major types of weapons and weaves accounts from the expedition journals with the author's knowledge gained from field-testing the muskets and rifles he describes.
Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification
A Guide
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780806151588
Pub Date: March 2016
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guide traces the history of musket balls and small shot, and explores their uses as lethal projectiles and in nonlethal alterations. Sivilich asks-and answers-a variety of questions to demonstrate how a musket ball found in a military context can help to interpret the site: Was it fired? What did it hit? What type of gun is it associated with? Has it been chewed, and if so, by whom or what? Was it hammered into gaming pieces?
A Legacy in Arms
American Firearm Manufacture, Design, and Artistry, 1800-1900
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CA$81.95
ISBN: 9780806144771
Pub Date: December 2014
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The history of American firearms is inseparable from the history of the United States, for firearms have played crucial roles in the nation's founding, westward expansion, and industrial, economic, and cultural development. This history unfolds in compelling words and images in A Legacy in Arms, a volume that draws upon the collections of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City to trace the business and art of gun making from the early national period to the turn of the twentieth century.
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume III
Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840-1865
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CA$119.00
ISBN: 9780826350015
Pub Date: November 2012
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
This third volume in Moller's authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the U.S. government for issue to federal and state armed forces in the period...
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I
Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms
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CA$119.00
ISBN: 9780826349958
Pub Date: November 2011
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Lavishly illustrated with more than four hundred vivid photographs of muskets, rifles, carbines, and other arms, this book offers an intelligent analysis of the shoulder arms procured and used by the colonists, colonial and state governments, and the Continental Congress.
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II
From the 1790s to the End of the Flintlock Period
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CA$119.00
ISBN: 9780826349989
Pub Date: November 2011
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II, contains more than three hundred photographs. As with the previous volume, Volume II is written primarily for students of arms, but also contains material of interest to historians, museum specialists, collectors, and dealers of antique arms.
Architecture and Artifacts of the Pennsylvania Germans
Constructing Identity in Early America
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CA$79.95
ISBN: 9780271033389
Pub Date: October 2008
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather
Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780826335937
Pub Date: December 2005
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
The many roles played by guns in the old West with personal accounts by many early settlers and hundreds of photos.
The Horse Soldier, 1917-1943
World War I, the Peacetime Army, World War II,
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806123950
Pub Date: September 1993
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
This is the fourth and final volume of Randy Steffen's monumental work, The Horse Soldier. With this volume the work brings together-in nearly a thousand pages of text and nearly five hundred illustrations-a comprehensive history of the cavalryman's dress, horse equipment, weaponry - every item the horse soldier wore, carried, or used-from Revolutionary times to World War II.
Gunlore
Firearms, Folkways, and Communities
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781496850935
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Rhetoric and Guns
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781646422142
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Utah State University Press
Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806160511
Pub Date: January 2018
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification
A Guide
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780806151588
Pub Date: March 2016
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
A Legacy in Arms
American Firearm Manufacture, Design, and Artistry, 1800-1900
CA$81.95
ISBN: 9780806144771
Pub Date: December 2014
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume III
Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840-1865
CA$119.00
ISBN: 9780826350015
Pub Date: November 2012
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I
Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms
CA$119.00
ISBN: 9780826349958
Pub Date: November 2011
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume II
From the 1790s to the End of the Flintlock Period
CA$119.00
ISBN: 9780826349989
Pub Date: November 2011
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Architecture and Artifacts of the Pennsylvania Germans
Constructing Identity in Early America
CA$79.95
ISBN: 9780271033389
Pub Date: October 2008
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather
Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780826335937
Pub Date: December 2005
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
The Horse Soldier, 1917-1943
World War I, the Peacetime Army, World War II,
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806123950
Pub Date: September 1993
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press