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

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

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

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, westwa